Ransomware Posing As Microsoft

Security company Panda warns in their blog about a ransomware that tries to trick users to believe their Windows authenticity has failed. To get it fixed users are asked to pay 100€ by following given instructions. Naturally, nothing should be paid. Panda have published a code that can be used to deactivate the malware.

More information in PandaLabs blog.

Rogue Software Campaigned In Twitter

PandaLabs write in their blog about rogue software campaigns that cyber-criminals are having in Twitter. In the attack, criminals are using zombie Twitter accounts to post messages with url links included. Clicking these links starts a series of redirections that finally ends up to malware serving websites.

Yesterday, all links were posted in messages under "PhishTube Broadcast" topic. However, new PandaLabs' blog entry states that over the past 24 hours the Twitter trends based attack has expanded to several thousand tweets targeting trendy topics on Twitter and the figures keep rising.

Fake YouTube Page Generator On Loose

Panda Security writes in its Blog about new virus constructor type malware.

Tool called as Constructor/YFakeCreator allows to create fake YouTube web pages with the objective to deceive users and distribute malware through them. Distributed malware can be of any type like for example worm, Trojan, virus or adware.

YTFakeCreator makes it easy for even unskilled people to set up an attack. It has a configuration menu that lets the would-be attacker select a warning message to be displayed on the fake video page and properties of the video, among other options.

"They've really commercialized malware. There's been an upsurge of sophisticated custom-built Trojans that come with service level agreements and tech support sold in underground forums," Ryan Sherstobitoff, a chief corporate evangelist of Panda Security, said according to CNET News.

More details about YTFakeCreator can be read in Panda's Encyclopedia.