Polinka Banking Trojan and my Russian Moscow visit...

There's been a banking trojan spam run in four European countries this weekend. One of the targeted countries seems to be The Netherlands. The mails claim to be from a nice looking Russian student girl looking for a sex partner or just a friend. The mail urges the recipient to check her photos at a site called livejournalhelper.cn (in China). Unfortunately, the site only has thumbnails on Ms. Polinka's pictures; when you try to view them in larger size you get an error message of a missing plug-in which you'd need to see the pictures. The plug-in is a man-in-the-middle banking trojan...

Oh yes talking about Russia ... some people asked me to put a link on my site to the Russian TV interview with RBK TV for their Cnews magazine during my lecture at the Moscow CSO Security Summit. So it's up now and you can find it over here or at my press page. There were several interesting speakers like Eugene Kaspersky (my boss) from Kaspersky Lab and Mikko Hyppönen from F-Secure.