A new piece of ransomware, called Ransom.a by most AV vendors, has been spotted in the wild. Evidence received so far suggests that this Trojan can be found on P2P networks. Read Full Article
News from the Mobile Front
The first quarter of 2006 marks a turning point in mobile malware development. The era of quantitative development, with its numerous, but primitive Trojans for Symbian OS has ended. Read Full Article
Malware naming – a never ending story
The saga continues Read Full Article
2005: *nix Malware Evolution
This report covers 2005, and provides an overview of the evolution of malware targeting platforms other than Windows. Read Full Article
New Mytob becoming prevalent
Early this morning we released an update for Net-Worm.Win32.Mytob.eg. Since then we’ve been seeing a clear increase in the number of samples. Read Full Article
Avarta – an MS Publisher virus
The spring seems to be a prolific time for new ideas and proof of concept viruses. However, not all of them are a cause for concern. Read Full Article
LdPinch…again.
Over the last few days new variants of Trojan-PSW.Win32.LdPinch have been spreading actively on the Russian internet. Read Full Article
Malware Evolution: January – March 2006
This latest report continues Kaspersky Lab’s series of quarterly reports on malware and cyber threat evolution. Read Full Article
Crossplatform virus – the latest proof of concept
We’ve received a new sample: another cross platform virus which will infect both Linux and Win32 systems. It’s therefore been given a double name: Virus.Linux.Bi.a/ Virus.Win32.Bi.a Read Full Article
Fast is good
Debate over response times Read Full Article