Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
So you're thinking, "Hey, I want to be totally irresponsible with my computer and load it up with crapware!" Really, isn't everyone getting tired of having to be so stinking responsible on the Internet all the time? We certainly are. We're ready for system protection that isn't afraid of our ...
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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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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Kaspersky Lab has published advice on recovering files encrypted by the frightening Gpcode.ak virus, but there is a big catch -- users must not have turned off their PC first.
A new variant of the malware struck last week, scrambling a variety of files on victims' PCs using a very strong ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
The emergence of a variant on a virus that encrypts the victim's data with a strong 1,024-bit algorithm so the victim can't unscramble it without paying a ransom has begun to spread, potentially posing a major threat, according to the antimalware firm which discovered it.
Kaspersky Lab says the new variant ...
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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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