February 6th, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Mobile malware on the rise, another case has been detected by Trend Micro Lab that targets Android smartphones. Attackers used Temple Run a widely used game application to spread and attract users to their malicious software. The most interesting is that the application is available on Android Market which is a kind of virtual supermarket [...]
February 1st, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua New malicious campaign have been detected by Trend Micro that is circulating on Facebook, the malware is called TROJ_FOOKBACE.A and it starts by inviting Facebook users to install a new cool theme for the Valentine , I think this will attract any user that are looking to show the real love for his partner. By [...]
Posted in Cybercrime & Hacking, Malwares 
Tags: Facebook, Malware, Malwares, Trend Micro 
No Comments » August 24th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua New spamming campaign has been reported by Trend micro. This type of malware is spreading through Facebook. The downloaded malware is another type of Zbot, also called Zeus a Trojan horse that attempts to steal confidential information from the compromised computer. It may also download configuration files and updates from the Internet. Malware spreads by [...]
Posted in Malwares, Social Networking Tags: Malware Research, Trend Micro, Zeus, Zeus bot 2 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 » November 28th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Security experts at Trend micro warned of a new attack targeting Skype users, this attack are a Botnet similar to Koobface that made a big panic on Facebook. According to the report the Botnet steals the users contact list, phone numbers, location,and other information on skype and it spread the malicious code over these contact [...]
April 9th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The Conficker worm is finally doing something–updating via peer-to-peer between infected computers and dropping a mystery payload on infected computers, Trend Micro said on Wednesday. Researchers were analyzing the code of the software that is being dropped onto infected computers but suspect that it is a keystroke logger or some other program designed to steal [...]
Posted in News, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: Botnet, Conficker, Downadup, peer-to-peer, Security, Trend Micro, Worm 1 Comment »
