http://momusings.blogsome.com Random ramblings and musings about all things malware and related net-nasties... Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:01:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en IMPORTANT - UPDATED Please note that this blog has now moved to my own hosted domain here: http://momusings.com/momusings/. A full RSS/ATOM feed can be found there. All the data up to the end of December 2006 will be left here, however all postings from the 1st of January 2007 onwards will ... http://momusings.blogsome.com/2007/02/19/this-blog-has-moved/ As I didn’t get chance to post this last week, I decided to do it now, even though I’m on holiday… November has come and gone and yet again it has been another very busy month for me, winter still hasn’t really arrived in the UK yet. Some farmers are still ... http://momusings.blogsome.com/2006/12/20/november-2006-malware-review/ Scammed, Spammed, or Both at the same time. As it is the season for giving gifts and thinking of others less fortunate than ourselves, I was somewhat surprised when I received the following email: However, I was even more surprised, when I looked at the e-mail in more depth, and the ... http://momusings.blogsome.com/2006/12/15/tis-the-season-to-be/ Here’s an article of a differnt nature, no malware, no spam, no scams or any of the other usual stuff I write about, this ones about us all making a difference… Now, don’t get me wrong I’m not a tree hugger, an environmentalist or at the other end of the scale, ... http://momusings.blogsome.com/2006/11/29/fight-global-warming-from-your-computer/ Is this the first case of an honest spammer, or is it just a case of incredible cosmic irony? You decide… Here is a screenshot of a typical ‘pump-and-dump-scam‘ spam e-mail spotted by my colleague Darren, today: A larger version can be found here. As you can see it is a typical ... http://momusings.blogsome.com/2006/11/28/an-honest-spammer/ Over the last month the amount of phishing scams I see has risen. In fact, since the beginning of November I have reported over 3,000 new phishing URLs. This is a significant increase for me, as I usually only report around 100 to 150. Each phishing e-mail is checked, all links ... http://momusings.blogsome.com/2006/11/23/paypal-phish-with-a-sting-in-the-tail/ October has come and it has been another very busy month for me. On the malware front it has been an interesting month with new techniques being used. Like previous months, I will cover some statistics from my own sensors and compare those against those from a couple of major anti-virus ... http://momusings.blogsome.com/2006/11/22/october-2006-malware-review/ Wow, must be my lucky day, according to an e-mail I’ve just received, I’ve won ‘1 Million US Dollars‘ and those of you that read my blog, will know that I’ve already been informed by another e-mail that I’ve already won ‘800,000 Euros‘ today! Hang on, this is another lottery ... http://momusings.blogsome.com/2006/11/17/another-million-reasons-to-be-sceptical/ Whoopee! I won 800,000 Euros in the latest lottery being run by Microsoft…..Imagine what I can do with that much money; buy a Ferrari [but I don’t drive, maybe I could learn?], pay off my mortgage, do a round-the-world trip, buy lots more spiders, snakes and guitars….Oh, and let my ... http://momusings.blogsome.com/2006/11/17/ive-won-another-microsoft-lottery/ In my never-ending search for the perfect RSS/Atom reader and/or aggregator, I have been testing the web based one offered by ‘Google‘ known as ‘Google Reader‘, and to be be honest I’m very impressed. Apart from being browser based, it is similar to many of the other RSS readers out ... http://momusings.blogsome.com/2006/11/15/google-reader-shared-items/ I have written a number of blog entries about the newer tricks being used by those that love to clog up the internet and more personally, our inboxes with the scourge of Spam! We have been seeing a rather massive increase in the quantity of spam, as well as more graphical ... http://momusings.blogsome.com/2006/11/10/massive-jump-in-spam/ Over the last 36 hours I’ve been seeing almost nothing but phishing scams aimed at Barclays Bank [British Bank]. Yes, I’m still seeing eBay and PayPal phishes too, even eGold and the odd HSBC one as well. Here is a screenshot of a typical Barclays phishing scam that I’m seeing by ... http://momusings.blogsome.com/2006/11/09/barclays-phish-just-keep-coming/ A number of people have asked me for my opinion on the built-in anti-phishing features of both Internet Explorer 7 [IE7] and Firefox 2.0. They are particularly interested in how good, or bad, they are when compared against one of the most mature and accurate anti-phishing toolbars, this being the ... http://momusings.blogsome.com/2006/11/06/quick-anti-phishing-roundup/ Orange, a rather large UK mobile phone operator, are running a promotion and offering £20 [UK Pounds] of free credit if you use their new e-topup service….or so the following e-mail [screenshot below] which arrived in my e-mail box the other day would have me believe. If an ‘Orange’ customer ... http://momusings.blogsome.com/2006/10/31/an-orange-phish-not-a-gold-one/ Following hot on the heals of the August Malware Review, here is the Monthly Malware Review for September 2006, just in time for me to think about starting the process all over again for the October Malware Review! September has come and it has been a very busy month for ... http://momusings.blogsome.com/2006/10/30/september-2006-malware-review/ As previously mentioned on this blog, I had a paper selected for the Virus Bulletin 2006 conference, which was held at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Canada, between the 11th and 13th of October [Yes, that was a Friday; Friday the 13th, and knowing the recent spate of ... http://momusings.blogsome.com/2006/10/27/virus-bulletin-2006-conference-review/ Here’s a new one I received today, and I just had to post it; screenshot below - don’t tell anyone, it is supposed to be a secret: A larger screenshot, for those of us that need it, can be found here. Poor old Mr Berlusconi needs your help in moving some ... http://momusings.blogsome.com/2006/10/25/italian-ex-prime-minister-needs-your-help/ Finally, here is the Mothly Malware Review for August 2006, better late than never? OK, I own up, I wrote it and then forgot to post it here, happy now? August has come and you can feel the start of autumn in the air in the evenings and mornings. ... http://momusings.blogsome.com/2006/10/23/august-2006-malware-review/ When I guest lecture at a University, give a presentation to customers, or at conferences I often mention the need to understand what has already happened in the field of malware and anti-malware to understand what has or has not worked in the past. I often state “why is it that ... http://momusings.blogsome.com/2006/10/20/do-people-ever-learn-from-history/ No I haven’t fallen off the edge of the world, been kidnapped by aliens, or been hibernating. I’ve been preparing for the Virus Bulletin 2006 conference which was held last week in Montreal, Canada. Before that I was in France for 4 days at a customer site, I have ... http://momusings.blogsome.com/2006/10/18/rootkits-risk-issues-and-prevention-paper-now-available/