Same attack recipe, with slight changes: one day, FB fans are “warned” that their passwords have been changed; next day, that their accounts have been used to send out spam and then that their personal info was modified

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Rather unusual activity has been analyzed this week. We have a worm that uses window titles to receive commands and a family which has not been seen spreading for a very long time: Trojan.Dialer

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The answer is simple: no. No matter how intuitive (and rather successful) it's spreading method is, this virus does no harm to any of the systems it comes in contact with, besides the actual file infection necessary for proliferation.

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This week a pretty simple but recyclable IRCBot caught out attention. Besides the fact that it allows remote control of the infected machine by the attacker, the only noteworthy fact about it is that it comes packed, which means that by the click of a button or two, a new morphed version of it can spread unhindered through anti-virus protected PCs.

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Nothing fancy this week. We got a Visual Basic worm (again) running completely hidden under the Windows Scripting Host, a removable drives infecting Trojan and an IRC controlled Trojan written in Delphi. Most carry Backdoors or Adware, however BitDefender detects all these e-threats already.

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This week we stumbled across a new version of the Cutwail botnet (also known as Pandex or Pushdo). We've takes the liberty to analyze its main components and see what makes it tick, because it's the second largest spam-bot on the planet, which means it has to be interesting.

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Welcome to the Spam Omelette, BitDefender’s weekly newsletter on the latest spam trends and techniques. In order to accurately draw the spam chart, we analyze about 7 million spam messages. In case you missed our previous reports, please have a look on our testing methodology before reading any further.

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It is a known fact that some e-threats use instant messaging applications to spread. Did you ever wonder how it's done? Well this week, we have a worm that uses MSN Messenger. The amazing part about it however is that it's a batch worm. Well partially at least.

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