 | |  |  |  | | | | December 30, 2010
THIRTYSEVEN4 WISHES YOU A BLESSED AND JOYOUS NEW YEAR
On behalf of myself and my Thirtyseven4 team, we wish you and your families a blessed and safe New Year. We are very excited in the opportunity to protect your networks and serve you in the upcoming year. We have many great and exciting product and company announcements for 2011, so please check back regularly.
In observance of the national holiday, many of our departments will be closed on Friday (December 31st). However, as always, the virus research team and premium support team will still be hard at work keeping you safe.
posted by Steven Sundermeier |
| | | | | | November 25, 2010
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Today is Turkey Day! We wish you and your families a blessed and safe Thanksgiving. In observance of Thanksgiving, the Thirtyseven4 offices will be closed today and Friday. However, the virus research team and premium support team will still be hard at work keeping you safe.
Remember to use extreme caution when browsing Black Friday search terms and reading through your inbox. As previously reported, cybercriminals are out in full force trying to capitalize on this holiday time. I’ve posted a few articles for further reading:
InfoSecurity - Fake Black Friday websites are a top source of rogueware
eWeek - Hackers Target Black Friday, Cyber Monday Search Terms
Black Friday Ads Teaming with Viruses, Phishing Scams
Akron Beacon Journal - Black Friday Shoppers Start their Engines
posted Steven Sundermeier | | | | November 19, 2010
Fake Black Friday Websites Remain a Top Source of Rogueware
With the search term “Black Friday ads” soaring in popularity this week (#1 on most sites tracking search terms), we are again advising consumers looking to get a sneak peek at this deals to use extreme caution. As noted yesterday, malware authors have already begun exploiting these search terms and they are continuing to do so.
posted by Steven Sundermeier
| | | | November 18, 2010
The Name of Popular Retail Chain Best Buy Used To Spread Scareware
As you can seen from the image below, it has been recently discovered that the cybercriminals have begun using the curiosity of holiday shoppers against them by poisoning popular search terms of the season. In the case below the term ‘Best Buy Black Friday Deals’ resulted in a poisoned link that if visited would download the fake security application, Internet Security Suite.
In order to get awareness out to the public about such scams, our team has posted the following press release that contains information about how to avoid falling victim to these attacks. The press release can be seen here.
I have also included a screenshot of the noted FraudTool.InternetSecurity below:
posted by Steven Sundermeier
| | | November 15, 2010
SCAREWARE v.2011 MAKING ITS ARRIVAL
With the year 2011 rapidly approaching, it appears that scareware authors are wasting no time getting their latest creations updated to reflect 2011. It is very typical for legitimate security vendors to release their upcoming programs for the next year in the November and December timeframe. We have recently updated for a new malware Trojan.FakeSE.2011. Trojan.FakeSE.2011 disguises itself as MS Security Essentials 2011. I have posted a sample screenshot below and a complete description can be seen from here. Thirtyseven4 Antivirus customers are 100% protected against this threat.
posted by Steven Sundermeier
| | | | November 10, 2010
Conficker Still Causing Problems for Too Many Schools
I am writing this blog as a follow-up to the press release that hit the wire today. In the release we mention the free services and tools we are offering any visitor to our website who may still be dealing with I-Worm.Kido (Conficker).
Tools include:
- Our Free Online Malware Scanner
- Our Free Conficker Removal Tool
- Our Free (fully functional) Evaluation Software of Thirtyseven4 Antivirus
- More information on Conficker (Virus Description)
Services include:
Available *non-customer assistance in Conficker clean-up
* I mention non-customer because Product Support (phone | chat | email | knowledgebase) is always a free service for our customers.
If you’re a school system with an active Conficker, we’d love to help you out.
posted by Steven Sundermeier | |
| | | October 20, 2010
Scareware Authors Getting More Aggressive
According to a blog post by security firm Trend Micro, it appears that an update server for Kaspersky Labs may have been compromised. The hacked site led multiple Kaspersky users to post comments in various forums about their experience of inadvertently downloading a piece of Scareware called Security Tools from this site. I believe the following action goes to show the great lengths and risks these authors will go to get their creations downloaded (in hopes to extort money from unsuspecting users). You can read more about the blog from here.
http://countermeasures.trendmicro.eu/kaspersky-download-site-spread-fake-av/
posted Steven Sundermeier |
| | | October 11, 2010
10/10/10
If you are in the security field, you may have found yourself being the recipient of the following question over the weekend- “will there be some big computer virus outbreak on 10-10-10 that will take down the Internet?” In my 12 years of experience in the antivirus field, I have found that certain superstitious dates usually stir up more anxiety and worries than actual harm. Think back to the turn of the new Millennium or more routine dates like Friday the 13th. The truth is everyday, regardless of the date, new threats emerge and that is why Thirtyseven4 is updated for thousands of new pieces of malware daily. It is also why Thirtyseven4 and its partners literally work around the clock keeping our users protected.
posted Steven Sundermeier |
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