Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
We've seen tons of banking trojans lately, but now we've run into something quite unique.
This new banking trojan was found today from a drive-by-download site. We've added detection for it as Win32.Pril.A
It not only infects the MBR of the machine, but also reflashes the boot code in the Flash BIOS, ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Websense Security Labs has been tracking the use of Slide.com as a hosting site for malware for several months. The popular Web 2.0 social networking Web site, ranked 252 by Alexa (Alexa Ranking), is both the largest Facebook application developer and a free and easy place to host malware.
Having tracked the various ways malware is hosted on ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Building on earlier research into cold-boot attacks on computer memory, two consultants showed off their prototype tools for grabbing passwords from untended computers, during a session at the CanSecWest conference last week.
The consultants -- Sherri Davidoff and Tom Liston, both of security firm Intelguardians -- found that numerous Windows and ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
A wave of April Fool's Day related Storm mails have just been sent out. Similar as the other times with a link that points to an IP address.
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
A while ago we blogged about the MBR rootkit, which has been getting attention from all the security vendors. We're glad to inform you that the latest version of the F-Secure BlackLight standalone rootkit scanner now detects MBR rootkit infections.
BlackLight has stood the test of time ever since it was ...
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