Last Friday, Kaspersky Lab’s experts detected a new variant of Sality.aa, which is at present the most popular polymorphic virus. Within the last two years this virus has remained one of the TOP-5 malicious programs. Read Full Article
The TJX Hacker Black SEO Campaign
While I was reading a nice Wired article on how Alberto Gonzalez, the TJX hacker who caused $171.5 million in losses, was sentenced to 20 years in prison, I came across an interesting black SEO campaign that distributes fake AVs through Google. Read Full Article
Moscow bombings lead to Twitter malware ‘bombings’
Yesterday it was the Haiti Earthquake, Alberto Gonzalez or any other trendy topic and today cyber criminals are using the Moscow bombing. The aim is the same – to infect as more people as it’s possible. The criminals base their targets on the trend topics. Right now Twitter has the next… Read Full Article
Malicious Javascript vs. card reader
Today’s bank customers face the very real threat of losing their hard-earned cash if their online banking identities are stolen by cybercriminals. Read Full Article
No honor among thieves – even in Germany
A lot of tools and services change hands – for money in the criminal underground . For example bot-packs are offered by the creator or his business partners for a defined amount of money. The customer gets a package with all needed files and additional support, like updates against anti-virus… Read Full Article
Spam – How it Mirrors the Global Economy
These days, spam has become a part of our everyday lives, even if we wish that it wasn’t, and like many other things, it is indicative of what is happening to the global economy. Read Full Article
It takes only one ‘nice’ person
In the security industry we often focus heavily on new technologies and shiny new software, and forget that so much of what we see is dependent on the person behind the computer. Read Full Article
Active Koobface C&C servers hit a record high – 200+ and counting
As I was saying in the yesterday’s blog post, we were expecting the number of Koobface C&C servers to start growing sometime this week Read Full Article
Koobface C&C servers steadily dropping – new spike coming soon?
Two weeks ago we recorded a surge in Koobface, the highly prolific worm infecting social networking sites. Read Full Article
Spam evolution: February 2010
The amount of spam detected in mail traffic averaged 86.1% in February 2010. A low of 80.5% was recorded on 15 February, with a peak of 90.8% on 21 February. Read Full Article