ICANN Terminates Contract with EstDomains
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has terminated its contract with the widely criticized domain registrar, EstDomains. For those who don't know,…
New ways to distribute rogueware
Nowadays, the most prevalent infections belong to rogueware, which are those fake antivirus, antispyware or anti-anything that try to take the money from the users…
As stock market drops malware rises
As the U.S. stock market indexes dramatically declined in September, cybercriminals began organizing their efforts to sustain profitability. While the stock market shows a sharp…
Fake Email of the Federal Police of Brazil (Computer crimes investigation unit)
This fake email seems to be sent from the Computer crimes investigation unit of the Brazilian federal police department. It pretends to frighten users by…
Microsoft Updates for November
This month two new security bulletins have been published ( MS08-068 and MS08-069 ) as part of the usual launch of Microsoft Updates. According to Microsoft's…
Facebook and MySpace's worm
PandaLabs has recently detected a new variant of the Boface family that affects the social networks Facebook and MySpace. In this case, the worm sends all the user's…
Barack Obama's Spam & Malware Campaign
Shortly after having known the results of the US presidencial elections, the cyber-crooks have used this topic to distribute malware in spam messages. One of…