Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Experts at SophosLabs™, Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centers, have welcomed news that a teenager has confessed to controlling thousands of computers in an illegal botnet.19-year-old Jason Michael Milmont, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, has admitted to being the programmer of the Nugache malware which infected Windows computers, ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Security researchers Friday warned of a new, massive spam campaign that tries to convince users to install the long-running Storm bot Trojan on their PCs.
The new spam blitz is difficult to characterize, said researchers from MX Logic Inc. and F-Secure, because of the nearly 40 different subject heads used by ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Another new development in the malware arena, this new version of Zlob will actually log onto your router and change the DNS settings to hijack your traffic.
Pretty interesting approach and it will work because 99% of people won’t change the default password on their routers. Let’s face it, have you ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Yesterday's post discussed a mystery PDF file that was boopytrapped to drop a backdoor.
Today we'll look at how these documents are created.
Here's an example of a tool called Y08-04 aka GenMDB.
When run, it displays this user interface:
The apparent purpose of this tool is to create trojanized PDF files. You select ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
An OECD study into online crime says that increased activity by cyber criminals has left an estimated one-in-four US computers infected with malware.
The report, entitled Malicious Software (malware): a Security Threat to the Internet Economy, gives an impression of two worlds engaged in an uneven war of virus invasion and ...
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