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Virus Alert! Twitter, Google, Hallmark and Others Subject To Attack

The eSoft Threat Prevention Team is warning customers today of a new email scam circulating very quickly. These fraudulent emails claim to be from Google Staffing, Hallmark, Twitter as well as other social networks and legitimate businesses. The email persuades the user to open the attached ...

Posted 05 March 2010 by Patrick Walsh

tags: virus , bot , spam

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Hotmail Users Look for Answers in Dangerous Places

An outage of the Windows Live ID service affected a large number of MSN users today, including users of the popular Hotmail email service. Hotmail is one of the largest web-based email outlets and not surprisingly news of the outage spread quickly as users were not able to access their email. Th ...

Posted 17 February 2010 by Patrick Walsh

tags: Blackhat SEO , PageRank Bomb , Rogue AV , Fake AV , Rogue Anti-Virus

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Fake Firefox Update Pages Push Adware

Since its’ release on January 21st, the newest version of the Firefox web browser has received a great deal of attention. In just a short time it has achieved over 30 million downloads. Adware pushers are capitalizing on the success of Firefox, packing ad serving software in with the prog ...

Posted 03 February 2010 by Patrick Walsh

tags: firefox , adware , web security

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Super Bowl associations: football, nachos, big screens and … malware?

The Super Bowl is the one of the biggest and most watched television events of the year in the United States. People everywhere scour the internet looking for predictions, gambling spreads and news before the event and scores, stories and clips after the event. In anticipation of the increased ...

Posted 19 January 2010 by Patrick Walsh

tags: Blackhat SEO , PageRank Bomb , Web Security , Rogue AV , Google Search

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Lack of Egress Filtering Spurs Success of Injected IFrame Attack

The security community at large and the eSoft Threat Prevention Team have recently noticed an uptick in sites compromised by a new injection attack that results in an injected iframe. This attack can be recognised by its attempts to masquerade the malicious script as GNU, GPL or LGPL. GPL and ...

Posted 18 January 2010 by Patrick Walsh

tags: Web Security , Injection Attack

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Live.com Exploited as Pharma-Fraud Cover

The FDA crackdown on online pharmacy sites has driven a lot of attention to illegal and fraudulent online pharmacies and in particular to their methods for tricking people to visit their sites. These practices include prolific spam and search engine poisoning. eSoft’s Threat Prevention Team h ...

Posted 23 December 2009 by Patrick Walsh

tags: Spam , Fraud , Pharma-Fraud

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Boeing 787 searches hijacked by rogue anti-virus

Today, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet completed its much awaited first flight. As users searched to find videos and news articles related to the story, blackhats quickly moved in for yet another attack against Google search results. The most popular search for several hours today was “787 fi ...

Posted 16 December 2009 by Patrick Walsh

tags: Web Security , Rogue AV , Google Search , Blackhat SEO

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Blackhats Unleash Fake Blog Campaign Spreading Rogue AV

In September, eSoft reported as many as 720,000 compromised sites hosting fake blog pages and being used to distribute rogue anti-virus programmes. Many of these sites are still active and continue to plague searches with malicious results. Earlier today, Cyveillance issued this report of a nearl ...

Posted 18 November 2009 by Patrick Walsh

tags: web security , compromised sites , rogue AV , malware

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CoolerEmail Hit by Phishing Scam

CoolerEmail is notifying customers of a new phishing scam used to steal login credentials. The web based email marketing programme carries an impressive client list including Walmart, Toyota, Pepsi and dozens of other big name brands. Any phished credentials can be used to impersonate these companie ...

Posted 13 November 2009 by Patrick Walsh

tags: Phishing , Web Security

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Compromised Web Servers Host Koobface Malware Cocktail

The Koobface gang has struck again using compromised web servers to deliver a potent mix of malware. eSoft threat researchers have found hundreds of newly exploited sites hosting malware which includes downloaders, keyloggers and multiple variants of the Koobface worm. Attackers using compromised ...

Posted 21 October 2009 by Patrick Walsh

tags: Web Security , Koobface , Social Networking , Social Engineering , Compromised Sites

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Unresolved Compromised Fox Sports Host Heading Into Third Week

eSoft first detected a compromise on the Fox Sports website two weeks ago and as of today, at least one Fox Sports host continues to contain automatic links to a multitude of dangerous exploits. Even with media coverage and direct emails, this compromised host has not be taken offline or clean ...

Posted 17 October 2009 by Patrick Walsh

tags: Compromised Sites

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Recapping the Fox Sports Website Compromise

On October 2nd eSoft published a blog warning visitors of the Fox Sports website about compromised pages with the potential to serve malicious software. To date, the threat remains on their website despite direct warnings to Fox Sports webmasters and domain contacts of the infection. This website ...

Posted 09 October 2009 by Patrick Walsh

tags: Compromised Sites , Web Security

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