Vulnerabilities and exploits

This article provides an overview of the methods currently used by cyber criminals to attack financial institutions and banks in particular. It reviews general trends and takes how malicious programs targeting financial institutions are designed to evade detection by antivirus solutions

Secunia tests

During our visit to the Virus Bulletin conference 2008 last week a man was arrested in Belgium for using someone else’s unsecured Wifi connection to get on the Internet. (More details in Dutch available here).

Hackers hacking hackers

Turbulence in the blogosphere

Our society has evolved to the point where many if not most of us spend a significant portion of our lives online. In many ways, this online virtual world mirrors our real world. Criminals, who are an unfortunate but integral part of our social structure, quite naturally have also appeared in the virtual world.

This week it’s Twitter’s turn to host an attack targeting both Twitter users and the Internet community at large. In this case it’s a malicious Twitter profile twitter.com/[skip]/ with a name that is Portuguese for ‘pretty rabbit’ which has a photo advertising a video with…

Anyone who’s been reading tech news lately may have noticed items about a Kris Kaspersky

Quite a long time ago I contacted Microsoft regarding what I thought was a XSS vulnerability in IE. Microsoft disagreed, preferring to call it a ‘feature’.

We have discovered one interesting technique to hide malicious URLs from researchers.

The Race to Zero is not a questionable affair – no questions about it…it is unethical.

I love numbers…

It is more than 20 years since the first PC virus appeared. Since then, the nature of threats has changed significantly

A few days ago we started getting messages from users saying that their antivirus software had started detecting Trojans in the Flashget directory.

Online surveillance still under discussion