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Malware Miscellany, April 2008 Yury May 07, 2008 | 13:02 GMT comment Greediest Trojan targeting banks Trojan-Spy.Win32.Banker.lax , which targets customers of 104 banks, wins this category in April Greediest...
April Malware Roundup May 6th, 2008 by Jasper Pimentel (Advanced Threats Researcher) Last month started with an April Fool’s message being spammed around. The spammed email contained a link from where...
ClamAV Multiple Vulnerabilities Secunia Advisory: SA29000 Release Date: 2008-04-14 Last Update: 2008-04-22 Critical: Highly critical Impact: Security Bypass DoS System access Where: From remote Solution...
Kraken Technical Details: UPDATED x3 Published: 2008-04-07, Last Updated: 2008-04-09 00:40:48 UTC by John Bambenek (Version: 1) 0 comment(s) Information has just started flowing on the Kraken diary from...
ooooookkkk this is a new one Is Malware affecting Global Warming? Friday April 4, 2008 at 5:32 am CST Posted by Patrick Comiotto Trackback On the 19th of March 2008 I attended a conference at the Said...
Brian Krebs on Computer Security About This Blog | Archives | RSS Feed ( What's RSS? ) Don't Depend on Anti-virus to Save You Last week I wrote a story about how anti-virus companies are struggling...
Microsoft acquires rootkit specialist Komoku; DoD now a customer Microsoft on Thursday acquired Komoku, which provides rootkit detection software, for an undisclosed sum. Komoku’s technology will be added...
F-Secure Archives Handling Unspecified Vulnerabilities Secunia Advisory: SA29397 Release Date: 2008-03-17 Critical: Highly critical Impact: DoS System access Where: From remote Solution Status: Vendor...
F-Secure Security Advisory FSC-2008-2 Posted by Mikko @ 12:00 GMT | postCount('00001404'); Comments We have just released security advisory FSC-2008-2 . The Secure Programming Group at Oulu University...
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Framework Service Format String Vulnerability Secunia Advisory: SA29337 Release Date: 2008-03-13 Critical: Moderately critical Impact: DoS System access Where: From local network...
Trend Micro OfficeScan CGI Module and Policy Server Buffer Overflows Secunia Advisory: SA29124 Release Date: 2008-02-28 Critical: Moderately critical Impact: DoS System access Where: From local network...
Trend Micro OfficeScan 8.0 Policy Server Denial of Service Secunia Advisory: SA29151 Release Date: 2008-02-28 Critical: Less critical Impact: DoS Where: From local network Solution Status: Unpatched Software...
Trojan.Pandex – Doing More Than Spamming Trojan.Pandex was first found in early 2007 and is a Trojan that is primarily used to send spam. Obviously the author has more ambition than to stick with simply...
The very first computer virus did not happen on a Windows machine, or a Mac or an Apple II. The first virus did not travel via the Internet or in an email or in a floppy disk. The first virus was not on...
Many Facets of AV Testing Friday January 25, 2008 at 2:00 pm CST Posted by Hiep Dang Trackback Following the news from my colleague Dr. Igor Muttik about his recent trip to Bilbao, Spain, to participate...
Case Closed Posted by Sean @ 15:41 GMT | The volume of malware is increasing and we rely on ever increasing amounts of automation. Our automated systems are necessary to manage the flow of new samples...
Trojan.Haradong Author and Accomplices Arrested The Trojan.Haradong author and his accomplices have been arrested, not for creating the so-called "Harada virus," but for unauthorized use of copyrighted...
New Wine in a Old Bottle - StealthMBR Rootkit Thursday January 24, 2008 at 10:25 am CST Posted by Anil Ramabhatta and Raghavendra Ellur Trackback These days Malware authors are using cutting-edge and blended...
I am still waiting on virus naming standards... Anti-Virus Testing 2.0 Wednesday January 23, 2008 at 11:16 am CST Posted by Igor Muttik Trackback A colleague of mine from McAfee Avert QA and I have just...
Malware Miscellany, December 2007 Yury January 22, 2008 | 10:39 GMT comment Greediest Trojan targeting banks. Last month the winner of this title was Trojan.Win32.Qhost.sx , which targeted the customers...
P.S. I Love You January 17th, 2008 by Robert McArdle Valentine’s Day (February 14th) is a day originally named after the two Christian martyrs who died over 1700 years ago. Nowadays, of course, it is a...
Chasing Storm into 2008 January 16th, 2008 by Trend Micro The 2007 Internet weather report is in: It was the Stormiest we have seen. The security arena endured a year of Storm — the ever-changing pool...
December Malware Roundup January 3rd, 2008 by Jasper Pimentel December has always been a festive month and it’s no wonder that most of the malware that surfaced last month wanted to be a part of the holiday...
No more W32/Voterai.worm? Thursday December 13, 2007 at 10:37 am CST Posted by Paolo Palumbo Trackback This is what we at Avert Labs hope will happen after the 27th of December 2007. In fact, on the date...
Welcome to our Forum Posted by Patrik @ 13:37 GMT | We've now restarted forum.f-secure.com. Meanwhile we've received some questions from our readers asking for more information about what happened...
November Malware Roundup December 11th, 2007 by Jasper Pimentel Most of the threats that emerged in November were compromised Web sites. The degree of the Web threats encountered ranged from simple spoofed...
From Fast-Flux to RockPhish - Part 2 Monday December 3, 2007 at 8:52 am CST Posted by Francois Paget Trackback Last Friday, I started some analysis on fast-flux techniques. I stopped my discussion with...
From Fast-Flux to RockPhish - Part 1 Friday November 30, 2007 at 8:57 am CST Posted by Francois Paget Trackback For several years, we have been talking about the sophistication of attacks. The main goals...
The 3-Step (Infection) Program November 10th, 2007 by Lordian Mosuela This month I’ve witnessed an evolution of file infectors/viruses in manipulating system infection. The diagram below shows the development...
Think Your Home Computer Is Safe? Think Again Thursday October 4, 2007 at 6:18 am CST Posted by Francois Paget Trackback In 2004 and 2005, the AOL/NCSA surveys revealed a significant gap between security...
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