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This report provides an overview of different types of keyloggers, gives examples of losses caused by keyloggers, and provides recommendations on how to protect against them.

Greediest Trojan e-payment systems, stealthiest malicious program, most common malicious program in email traffic, most common Trojan family and others.

Nevertheless, Trojan-Downloader programs, the most widespread class of Trojans, remain among the leaders: representatives of this class are in second and fourth place in our January rankings.

For the moment at least, all Warezov variants are being beaten back by Bagle and other malicious programs. This is supported by the fact that only Warezov.do has remained in the ratings, and in seventeenth place at that.

Kaspersky Lab presents the Online Scanner Top Twenty for December 2006

My thoughts on Jim Allchin’s comments

Yesterday, we added detection for Virus.Win64.Abul.a to our antivirus databases.

We’ve been receiving a number of new samples of Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Delf.awg from users. The good news is that KAV 6.0 and KIS detect these new modifications of Delf proactively.

We’ve noticed an increase in the prevalence of Y!/MSN-aware worms. These rely on various social engineering tricks to lure the user into a malicious website.

A very nice description of a Trojan which in an attempt to keep other “competitors” out, installs an antivirus which it uses to keep the system clean. Unsurprisingly, the antivirus which the Trojan installs is KAV

This latest half-yearly report covers the most significant changes in malicious code evolution over the last six months and included a number of predictions as to how the situation may develop based on the statistics we have today.

Slander and plagiarism

Why viruses aren’t elks

No justification for writing malware

Over the weekend we saw the first malware to exploit MS06-040 – Backdoor.Win32.IRCBot.st.

Reports

In this article, we discuss the tools and TTPs used in the SideWinder APT’s attacks in H2 2024, as well as shifts in its targets, such as an increase in attacks against the maritime and logistics sectors.

Kaspersky researchers analyze EAGERBEE backdoor modules, revealing a possible connection to the CoughingDown APT actor.

While investigating an incident involving the BellaCiao .NET malware, Kaspersky researchers discovered a C++ version they dubbed “BellaCPP”.

Lazarus targets employees of a nuclear-related organization with a bunch of malware, such as MISTPEN, LPEClient, RollMid, CookieTime and a new modular backdoor CookiePlus.

Windows malware

Keyloggers: How they work and how to detect them (Part 1)

Malware Miscellany, february 2007

Online Scanner Top Twenty for January 2007

Virus Top Twenty for January 2007

Online Scanner Top Twenty for December 2006

Antivirus and Vista

New file infector for Win64

New modifications of Trojan-Downloader spammed

The IM worms armada

Backdoor.Win32.Agent.uu aka Spamthru

Kaspersky Security Bulletin, January – June 2006: Malware Evolution

No good deed goes unpunished

Good guys doing bad things, part 2

Good guys doing bad things

Current state of MS06-040

Reports

SideWinder targets the maritime and nuclear sectors with an updated toolset

EAGERBEE, with updated and novel components, targets the Middle East

BellaCPP: Discovering a new BellaCiao variant written in C++

Lazarus group evolves its infection chain with old and new malware

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