Trend Micro Bolsters Security Package

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Trend Micro Monday announced a line of desktop and server security products intended for small to midsize businesses. Worry-Free Business Security 5.0 represents a re-branding of Trend's SMB client/server messaging security product line plus upgrades that integrate features such as behavior-based antimalware monitoring and an option for in-the-cloud Web security services ...

Malware & MySQL – Believe it!

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Most malware tends to store stolen credentials and information in make-shift text files, which are then forwarded to the author via email or another protocol. However, the use of scalable and robust solutions is becoming more popular in the malware community. In fact, it is becoming increasingly popular for malware ...

Creating malicous PDF files

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 ...

Beware of Error Messages At Bank Sites

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

If you own or work at a small to mid-sized business, and are presented with an error message about data synchronization or site maintenance when trying to access your company's bank account online, you might want to give the bank a call: A criminal group that specializes in deploying malicious ...

A quarter of US PCs infected with malware

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 ...