Vulnerabilities and exploits

This month Microsoft released 6 bulletins to plug 12 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE) and Microsoft Office products.

Gumblar infection count

The link between high speed and cybercrime

Kaspersky Lab presents its monthly malware statistics for October. From this month onwards, the data used is gathered from all products which use the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), i.e. products from both the 2009 and 2010 lines.

Malware writers today always try to conceal their identities, right? Wrong – even some of today’s profit driven cyber criminals reveal their identities. We are a bit surprised, but here is the story of how a blackhat has revealed his identity and is trying to ‘get compensation’ from Kaspersky for conducting research.

Eugene discusses in brief his position regarding anonymity on the INternet and the potential benefits of epassports.

After a lengthy interlude, we’re renewing our monthly malware almanac by popular demand.

Anyone who has ever analyzed malware designed to steal data from online banking customers will agree that Brazil is one of the biggest sources of so-called banking Trojans.

Today marks the largest patch Tuesday ever from our friends in Redmond with 13 vulnerabilities addressed, covering a total of 34 potential exploits.

This article is a study of one spam email and illustrates the methods employed by today’s cyber criminals to create botnets and conduct mass spam mailings.

Kaspersky Lab presents its monthly malware statistics for September

The evolution of mobile malware all but stopped after the publication of our first two articles on the subject. This is why there has been an interval of nearly three years between articles

Autorun no more

Kaspersky Lab presents its monthly malware statistics for August

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