Old tricks never die, and bad guys know that. We recently saw a big wave of malicious VBE files targeting Brazilian users, distributed via email messages. Read Full Article
Area41, formerly known as …
Gruezi from Zurich, Switzerland, where the Area41 conference is currently being held. Area41 doesn’t ring a bell? Well, this event went under a renaming process and was formerly known as Hashdays, that took place in Lucerne. However, the steering team behind… Read Full Article
Malicious URLs in .lc Zone
While analyzing suspicious URLs I found out that more and more malicious URLs are coming from.lc domain, which formally belongs to Santa Lucia country located in in the eastern Caribbean Sea. Our statistics confirm this trend. Cybercriminals from different places… Read Full Article
Hack in The Box Security Conference 2011 Amsterdam / NL
Since yesterday I’ve been attending the annual Hack-in-the-Box Quad-Track Security Conference in Amsterdam/NL. There’s a very nice and open atmosphere here at the conference, besides the beautiful city of Amsterdam. First, Joe Sullivan (CSO at facebook), held a very interesting… Read Full Article
Google, Mozilla and now Opera… Who’s next?
There have been several reports about malware hosted on Mozilla and Google code servers. Now we also found malware hosted on My Opera community servers. Read Full Article
Spot the imposter: pretending to be the original
Some months ago I wrote a blog post called “The evolution of rogue antivirus” which mentioned a new trend in the graphical user interfaces of Fake Anti-viruses. Our predictions were correct. Read Full Article
Malware Miscellany, September 2009
After a lengthy interlude, we’re renewing our monthly malware almanac by popular demand. Read Full Article
Malware Miscellany, April 2008
Most malicious program, most common Trojan family, greediest Trojan targeting banks, stealthiest malicious program and others. Read Full Article