Microsoft Malware Protection Center
The recent emergence of rogue security software applications for Mac demonstrates how cybercriminals effectively use social engineering techniques to manipulate users’ responses – specifically, exploiting user’s fear of revealing sensitive information such as credit card details. This scare tactic evidently works regardless of the platform. While financial gain is primarily the motivation that drives elaborate schemes of Internet fraud, a threat that appears limited and specific to its target raises interesting questions about whether this threat is on a mission.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2011/07/25/backdoor-olyx-is-it-malware-on-a-mission-for-mac.aspx
by certifiedbug on September 14, 2010
in Microsoft
Microsoft Malware Protection Center
Malware Plays Starcraft 2
Starcraft 2 is gaining popularity not only for gamers but also for malware writers. We wrote about Starcraft almost two months ago when it was first released. Now, apparently, it is also being used as part of a social engineering technique by a downloader family called Harnig. Harnig is employed by many other types of prevalent threats (Bubnix, FakeSpypro, Koobface) to download their malware into computers.
Included in the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) since October 2006, Harnig is one of the most prevalent malware families. In August 2010 alone, more than 140,000 files were detected as Harnig.gen!P.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2010/09/12/malware-plays-starcraft-2.aspx
