May 2nd, 2011 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua New fake videos has been posted on internet for infecting computers, on blog post Zscaler reported on fake codecs being delivered on sites promising bin Laden death videos, these videos are promoted on social networks and internet search engines. By clicking on the link a file named XvidSetup.exe will be downloaded and wait to be [...]
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Tags: Cybercrime & Hacking, Malicious Web Site, Malware, Malware Research 
32 Comments » January 9th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Sometime you open a webpage or an infected file and the antivirus still silent, without alerting about any suspicious activity on your machine, this is maybe due to not having the latest AV signature or that the malware are encrypted to make the AV not recognize it or that the file is clean and do [...]
Posted in Anti-Viruses, Browser Tags: Antiviruses, Malicious Web Site, Security, Software Security, VirusTotal, Web Security 13 Comments » August 6th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Trend Micro threat researchers has reported detecting several malicious web files that are using a strange digital signature which looks like be signed by antivirus company Kaspersky. After analyzing the files and there signatures there has been a clear difference between the legitimate signature and fake one, the fake copy includes wrong hash values, and [...]
Posted in Anti-Viruses, Cybercrime, News Tags: Kaspersky, Malicious Web Site, Malware Research, Trend Micro 2 Comments » June 10th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Researchers at eSoft Threat Prevention Team have discovered thousands of fake websites that looks like YouTube. The website contains video which leads to installing a downloader Trojan with a less than 20% detection rate according to Virus Total. The site is looking very closely to Youtube with a high quality to make it looks legitimate [...]
Posted in Cybercrime, Internet, News, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: Malicious Web Site, Malware, YouTube 11 Comments » April 18th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Stephan Chenette has introduced at BlakHat Europe conference in Barcelona a new utility for Firefox, this plugin called Fireshark. Fireshark is a tool, made up of a Firefox plugin and a set of postprocessing scripts that allows you to capture web traffic from the core of your web browser, enabling you to log events and [...]
Posted in Tools, Vulnerabilities & attacks, Web Security Tags: BlackHat, Fireshark, Malicious Web Site, Websecurity 13 Comments » October 16th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Websense has warned recently of a serious attack concerning Microsoft Outlook Web Access network service. Security experts have reported that they had founded emails that contain links to download malicious software, they already detected about 30,000 of these mails daily. Here is a screen shot of the malicious message: This is very frequent attack and [...]
Posted in Internet, News Tags: Malicious Code, Malicious Web Site, Microsoft, Scam, Security 13 Comments » July 3rd, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Websense Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has detected yet another new Waledac campaign theme in the wild. The new variant uses an Independence Day theme as a social engineering mechanism. The United States of America celebrates Independence Day on July 4 each year. The malicious emails that are sent use subjects and content related to Independence [...]
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