Malware

Late last Friday, Avert Labs became aware of an interesting piece of malware. In this latest social engineering scenario an attacker sends a new “friend request” to MySpace users. When the user clicks on the picture or name of their new potential friend, an overlaid image of what looks like a legitimate Windows “Automatic Update” pop-up box is displayed. Clicking on or near this bogus dialog will result in a request for a file download that is visually disguised as a Microsoft update called “updateKB890830.exe” from a server named “winxpupdate.Microsoft[removed]”.

It's that time of the year when individuals, companies, typically take stock of the old before they get ready to ring-in the new.

PandaLabs, Panda Security's anti-malware laboratory, has put together an almanac of sorts, listing some of the curious specimens of malware that appeared in the second half of this year.

The wannabe Trojan, "Aifone.A", which started doing the rounds after the launch of Apple's iPhone, in a bid to promote the iPhone when in reality it was promoting itself amongst unsuspecting users.