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From porn stars to strippers: careful with name games
Way back in 2009, Sophos covered a bit of viral "fun" on Twitter where users of that service revealed their "porn star name" - comprised of your "first pet" and your "first street".Well, look what's...
View ArticleVIPRE Black Friday Special
Here at GFI, we’re dedicated to providing quality antivirus software at exceptional values, and this Black Friday is no exception. Our Black Friday Salefeatures the biggest discounts of 2011 – up to...
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Phish for Thanksgiving?
Over the previous few days, our research team here at GFI has noticed an uptick in bank phishes winding up in a few of our spam traps. This particular scam is unique in that it comes with an html file...
View Article"Rogue browsers will make a comeback on the mobile platform."
We've seen it here first: YapBrowser has risen after being declared dead five years ago—and this discovery is by Chris Boyd himself just a day before he presented at VB 2011 to discuss about rogue...
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"Così fan tutte"
A company who make installers distributing the software of third parties recently contacted us to query a detection. As it turns out, their installer was not the problem - they were partnering with a...
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FakeScanti Rogue Hijacks HOSTS Files
Patrick, our resident rogue AV expert from the AV Labs, have his eyes set on one particular family—FakeScanti. This rogue family first appeared in the first quarter of 2010, and it has been within the...
View ArticleNew Facebook Worm in the Wild
Our friends at CSIS, a Danish security company, has spotted a worm spreading within the Facebookplatform. In a recent news article penned by Peter Kruse, the worm is said to be "a classic" one in terms...
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"Steam Birthday" crashed by party poopers
Here's a rather amateur phish targeting Steam users, located at steambirthday(dot)com. No birthday prizes for guessing what this scam is all about:Click to EnlargeYou know you're dealing with a special...
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"For your protection, your Barclays account has been suspended..."
If you see an email arrive in your mailbox with the above title, feel free to discard it - nothing good will come of it, unless your idea of "good" is "filling in all of your personal information into...
View ArticleHoliday Horrors: food stamps, phish and PDFs
Our monthly Top Ten threat detection report for the month of November is now available to take a look at, along with information on some of the scams we've seen these past few weeks including emails...
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More bad ads in Bing, Yahoo search
Another round of bad ads in Bing and Yahoo search are making an unwelcome return. Bing has fake Firefox adverts: Click to Enlarge Click to EnlargeYahoo has fake Adobe Flash adverts instead, located at...
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Blackhole Exploit Hones in on Amazon Users
Last week, our friends at ThreatPost posted about the ever-growing infection of websites hosting Black Hole Exploit Kits. A Black Hole exploit takes advantage of unpatched Windows operating systems. It...
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Adblock Fuss
I'm a big fan of Adblock Plus - it's a great add on if you don't want to be hit over the head with any number of spinning, flashing adverts torn straight from the pages of Dante.However, an interesting...
View ArticleProtecting Against DDoS is Probably THE Best Holiday Gift to Give Your Company
For the lot of us who rely on the Internet to get news updates, we are made familiar with Distributed Denial of System (DDoS) attacks. Anonymous being on the headlines continuously for months made this...
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"Curious Who's Stalking You?" - Yes, we've heard it before
This social media "stalking" thing, to the best of my knowledge, all began on MySpace. We've seen them emerge on Twitter, too: our friends at Sophos wrote a so-called "app" that Twitter purportedly...
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Phishers are Back to Target Chase Clients
Robert Stetson, one of our malware researchers at the AV Labs, found a new phishing scam in the wild.The scam arrives as an email that directs users to the URL,...
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Hobbits and surveys: not a good combination
It's not long since The Hobbit trailer made a lot of people very excited, and already we're seeing fake claims of "watch this movie online" leading to surveys.For example: Click to EnlargeClick to...
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Steam: All your coal are belong to us
The rather awesome Steam gaming platform has a festive competition running at the moment - perform certain tasks in a selection of games drawn each day (or sign up to a few non gaming activities like...
View ArticleTeam Meat Spun Right Round
"It's fine, trust me. I've done this stuff for a while now."Famous last words.Team Meat, developers of Super Meat Boy, had a bit of an issue this past week when their Super Meat World database was...
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2011: The Year that was for Facebook and Online Threats
CommTouch, an Internet security service provider, has recently released their Internet Threats Trend Report for 2011. In this report, they have highlighted and analyzed the various threats on Facebook...
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Bogus Video Game Crack Leads to Rootkit
Matthew, one of our malware researchers at the AV Labs, came upon a MediaFire link on a YouTube account that purports to direct users to a site where a crack code for the video game Pro Evolution...
View ArticleGFI's Take on What Online Crime Will be Like in 2012
In a recent release of GFI Software's VIPRE report, GFI Labs revealed that recycled tactics from cybercriminals will not cease this new year. Modifications on these tactics will only be slight, and...
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StalkTrak App gets Naked, Famous.
"No way" indeed.The Naked and Famous were displaying the following Tweet on their feed earlier:Click to EnlargeVisiting hampaw(dot)ru takes the end-user to...
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Phishers Use US-CERT Email Address as Bait
The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (simply known as US-CERT) is the latest bait phishers used to get users to install malware on user systems.US-CERT is a highly esteemed and trusted...
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Moving House
Yes, we are :) Click the image to visit the new GFI Labs BlogAn inevitable move, this. After all, Sunbelt Software has been part of GFI Software for more than a year now.This didn't happen overnight,...
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