Fake YouTube Page Creator – The Risk

Last week PandaLabs discovered a new tool for creating fake YouTube video pages as a way of deceiving users into installing malware. The vector for infection is similar to many fake codec based malware attacks seen in recent weeks (CNN, MSNBC, etc). The flexibility of this tool allows anyone to direct the fake Adobe Flash update error to any malicious executable file hosted on any server – this means that essentially a hacker could register several domains in different countries (as seen in the CNN alerts attack) and utilize a bot-net to distribute a mass amount of spam pointing to these fake YouTube pages. 

This tool introduces considerable risk to the community as it allows any hacker to easily generate false pages that have the look and feel of authentic YouTube pages and with the right combination of sending out spam, this could cause great damage.

Banks are not the only target for phishing

It’s not just banks that hackers deploy phishing attacks against; it has been seen that hackers also deploy attacks against other payment processing services such as MoneyGram, Equifax, Western Union, etc as a way of gaining profit through harvesting personal details.

New Statement of Fees Malspam

The Statement of Fees malspam campaign continues today with additional messages containing new Trojans. This round is distributing the W32/Autorun.AFC.worm malware which connects and downloads a file called lspr.exe.

Attack of the Southwest Airlines Malware

There is another round of spam messages claiming to be a ticket receipt for Southwest Airlines. The message attempts to entice the user into opening an attachment containing the electronic ticket which is actually malware classified as W32/Autorun.AEL.worm. The ploy here is the note that the ticket reservation system has changed and that an account has been created.

Lloyds TSB Scam: Updated Terms and Conditions

Recently we have noticed several email messages claiming to come from Lloyds TSB a London, UK based financial entity informing customers that they are required to login and accept an updated terms and conditions, otherwise their account will be suspended. The messages appear to be coming from noreply@illoydstsb.com; however, when further analysis is done on the message header it is actually coming from several domains ending with .es.

When the user clicks the link below thinking they will be going to the terms and conditions, they are actually sent to a fake Lloyds banking site that guides the user through the login process (in an effort to steal credentials).