Gabriel Agatiello

New Moon, New Spam

Spammers often ride on blockbuster movies to proliferate their malicious deeds. Just recently, Trend Micro researchers received spammed messages that piggybacked on the sequel of the Twilight movie, New Moon.
No suprises there as the said movie earned US$274.2 million on its opening weekend and... more »

SOHANAD’s Secret Revealed

SOHANAD may be an old malware family but it still remains a prevalent threat in the Asia Pacific region. WORM_SOHANAD is created using an AutoIt script, a freeware scripting language for MS Windows. The said script will then be converted or compiled into a Win32 executable (.PE file) using the... more »

Social Engineering Watch: Cyber Monday

Cyber Monday is basically the online retailers’ version of Black Friday and is considered the busiest day of the year for online shoppers and sellers alike. The National Retail Federation estimates that 96.6 million Americans to shop this Cyber Monday, an 11.5 million increase from 2008’s 85... more »

Don’t Give Spammers a Reason to Be Thankful

Thanksgiving kicks off the holiday season in the United States, the top spam-sending country in the world. The holiday season ushers sales and big discounts for users. Unfortunately, however, this also means that spammers will be rushing to offer consumers bogus promos and discounts. Seems even... more »

Another ZBOT Spam Run

Trend Micro threat analysts were alerted to the discovery of another ZBOT spam campaign. The emails bear subjects such as “your photos” and “some jerk has posted your photos.” They inform the recipients that someone has posted their photos without their permission on a site and has... more »

“New Koobface Variant” Targets Skype

The activities of the infamous Koobface botnet have been a frequent topic of discussion here at the Malware Blog. Some security analysts recently commented that the botnet has added a new tool to its arsenal as a new alleged “Koobface variant” has been targeting the VoIP application, Skype.
The... more »