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WMF exploit and Phishing

Myantispyware team January 16, 2006 No Comment Exploits & Vulnerabilities, Identity Theft

F-secure labs have found a phishing scam exploiting this vulnerability. This scam works by sending out emails, urging customers of the global HSBC bank to visit a site called www[dot]jhsbc[dot]com. This domain, naturally, has nothing to with the real bank but it sounds close enough. The site is running on a owned home computer somewhere

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HOSTS file hijacking and bank password stealing

Myantispyware team January 13, 2006 No Comment Browser Hijacking

HOSTS file hijacking combined with bank password stealing trojans is one of the more egregious spyware tricks currently being seen. Here’s the scenario. A user is infected with a trojan and other malware that, among other things, changes the HOSTS file so that websites commonly used for online banking are redirected to the spyware pusher/thief’s

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How to remove SpywareStrike

Myantispyware team January 8, 2006 No Comment Rogue Anti Spyware, Tips, Tutorials - HowTo

SpywareStrike is a program that displays an icon in the system tray. This icons shows a balloon, which says that your computer is infected with dangerous spyware parasites and asks the user to download and install an antispyware program, which actually is SpywareStrike. Once the user clicks on such balloon, the trojan opens the official

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New IM Worm Targets AIM Users to Deliver Adware Payload

Myantispyware team January 7, 2006 No Comment Worms

The new worm targets PC hosts infected with lockx.exe or palsp.exe and utilizes IRC enabled malware to connect the host to a server for further infection through a series of commands. One of the commands has the ability to control the AIM client on the infected host and send a message containing links to the

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More fake security sites

Myantispyware team January 7, 2006 No Comment Rogue Anti Spyware

dnserror404(dot)com todaywarnings(dot)com updatesystempage(dot)com yoursecuritysystem(dot)com Pages are advertising several anti-spyware programs, all on the Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware list. Don`t install these programs. More here and here

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New rogue anti-spyware – SpywareStrike

Myantispyware team January 6, 2006 No Comment Rogue Anti Spyware, Tips

It is downloaded with spyware just like its twin SpyAxe. The SpywareStrike website is identical to the SpyAxe site except for the name. The domain registration information looks familiar, too. Domain Name: SPYWARESTRIKE.COM Registrant: Keramitsu LLC David Alan Taylor 321th Melburn Street Seattle Washington,98107 US Tel. +207.9545521 Like the SpyAxe.com registration information, this looks bogus.

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How to remove the Aurora, Nail.exe, Epolvy Hijackers

Myantispyware team January 5, 2006 No Comment Browser Hijacking, Malware removal, Tips, Tutorials - HowTo

Nail.exe is a is a hijacker which means it will intermittently change your Internet Explorer settings / Desktop to the link of it’s author’s sponsors. This program is usually installed through consent, however is sometimes packaged as another product. Aurora.exe is an advertising program by Aurora. This process monitors your browsing habits and distributes the

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Panda Software publishes a free tool to eliminate the Nabload.U and Banker.BSX Trojans

Myantispyware team December 30, 2005 No Comment Free Software, Trojan

The explosive propagation of the Nabload.U and Banker.BSX Trojans has left thousands of computers around the world infected. Panda Software has therefore made its PQRemove utility available to all users to detect and remove these Trojans from any infected computer. This utility can be downloaded from http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/. Currently, Banker.BSX and Nabload.U hold first and second

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Trojan targets Spanish-speaking bank customers

Myantispyware team December 30, 2005 No Comment Trojan

Utilising a new fusion of spyware and phishing techniques, a recently discovered Trojan is threatening Spanish-speaking bank customers. Nabload.U, which distributes using MSN Messenger, has made a target of online bank users in traditionally Spanish-speaking countries. Both technical and social engineering techniques have been used to get PC users to download the Trojan. Once it

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New exploit blows by fully patched Windows XP systems

Myantispyware team December 28, 2005 No Comment Exploits & Vulnerabilities, Trojan

SecurityFocus just posted a bulletin on it. Microsoft Windows WMF graphics rendering engine is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability. The problem presents itself when a user views a malicious WMF formatted file, triggering the vulnerability when the engine attempts to parse the file. The issue may be exploited remotely or by a local

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WMF exploit and Phishing

HOSTS file hijacking and bank password stealing

How to remove SpywareStrike

New IM Worm Targets AIM Users to Deliver Adware Payload

More fake security sites

New rogue anti-spyware – SpywareStrike

How to remove the Aurora, Nail.exe, Epolvy Hijackers

Panda Software publishes a free tool to eliminate the Nabload.U and Banker.BSX Trojans

Trojan targets Spanish-speaking bank customers

New exploit blows by fully patched Windows XP systems

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