“Here you have” worm linked to cyber jihadists

A worm collectively dubbed by the security industry as the “Here you have worm” has been making its way onto corporate networks over the past 24 hours. The worm arrives via e-mail using the subject line “Here you have” or “Just For you“ along with an executable disguised as a PDF file. It first appeared last month sending spam e-mails from [email protected]. The worm creates the following files: (Note: See the full report in our sandbox -> http://x....

September 11, 2010 Â· 2 min Â· 307 words

Malicious warez site offers Firefox 4.0 beta download scam

Like a lot of seedy stuff, this started with a Twitter post:. The current working version of Mozilla’s Firefox browser is 3.6.8. Version 4 is in beta testing. You get them FREE from Mozilla.. Why would you need a crack (program with its password broken) or a keygen (application that generates a password for a password-protected program) for something that is FREE? Well, there’s a sucker born every minute and the folks at this warez (pirated software) site are betting there are a lot of them using Twitter....

August 29, 2010 Â· 1 min Â· 176 words

Facebook Dislike button scam spreads virally

Have you seen a message like this on Facebook? I just got the Dislike button, so now I can dislike all of your dumb posts lol!! If so, don’t click on the link. It’s the latest survey scam spreading virally across Facebook, using the tried-and-tested formula used in the past by other viral scams including “Justin Bieber trying to flirt”, “Student attacked his teacher and nearly killed him”, “the biggest and scariest snake” and the “world’s worst McDonald’s customer”....

August 16, 2010 Â· 2 min Â· 352 words

Barcelona vs. Real Madrid Black Hat SEO attack

Of course I’m talking about football. When I say football I mean the game that is played with one ball thas is kicked with the foot, not the other game that is known as football in the US even though it’s played using the hands. Anyway I don’t like football at all, it’s too boring fo me. But, at least in Europe, everyone loves football. And one of the best national championships is the Spanish one, with the 2 biggest teams being Real Madrid and F....

April 12, 2010 Â· 2 min Â· 226 words