You’ve been iframed

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Injected iframes into legitimate sites are becoming more and more common these days.  One of the latest targets is a Chinese government site at www.zhangzhu.gov.cn: Please note that while the site adminstrators have been notified, the injected iframe is still present in the site at the time of this posting. The iframe ...

USB malware on the rise

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Around a tenth of all malware is designed to use portable storage media, such as removable USB drives, as an attack and spread vector. Security firm ESET said that 10.3 per cent of malware detections last month were identified as files containing information on programs to be run automatically when removable ...

F-Secure predicts million viruses by end of 2008

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

The amount of new malware has never been higher. Our labs are receiving an average of 25,000 malware samples every day, seven days a week. If this trend continues, the total number of viruses and Trojans will pass the one million mark by the end of 2008. While there are more ...

Unusual banking trojan found today

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, ...

Slide.com Hosting Malware

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 ...