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- Malware
- MALicious softWARE Software designed to destroy, aggravate and otherwise make life unhappy. See crimeware, virus, worm, logic bomb, macro virus and Trojan.
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- Kaspersky's Malaysian site hacked by Turkish hacker
- According to Zone-h.org, Kaspersky's Malaysian site has been defaced by a Turkish hacker during the weekend, through a SQL injection, leaving the following message - "hacked by m0sted And Amen Kaspersky Shop Hax0red No War Turkish Hacker Thanx to Terrorist Crew all team members". "The official Malaysian Kaspersky Antivirus's...
- Tags: Web, Malware, Web Site, Site, Hacker, Kaspersky, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Malware rates up 278% in the first half of 2008
- Malware has risen by 278% in the first half of 2008, thanks to the large number of websites comprised last month, according to ScanSafe. Trojans are the most commonly blocked malware, they increased from 4% of malware in January 2008 to 27% in June 2008. by AM
- Tags: Malware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, AM
- Blog posts 2008-07-19
- Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter
- Owen Thor Walker, a 18 years old ringleader of an international cybercrime group, known as AKILL, part of the A-Team, a group of 8 script kiddies which were all caught in a operation called "Operation Bot Roast II" bust executed by the FBI and several international law enforcement agencies in...
- Tags: Job, Malware, Bot, Malware Bot, PRIVMSG, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Verizon, Telecom Italia, and Brasil Telecom top the botnet charts in Q2 of 2008
- Verizon, Telecom Italia, and Brasil Telecom top the botnet charts in Q2 of 2008I proposed a solution a while back.Any ISP can see who is compromised. That's obvious from the accurate stats you have. My idea, simply put, enforce all zombied machines to a proxy. This proxy...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Verizon Telecom Italia, Verizon Telecom, Zombied, Brasil Telecom, Verizon Communications Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- Verizon, Telecom Italia, and Brasil Telecom top the botnet charts in Q2 of 2008
- When was the last time you heard something in the lines of "We do our best to protect our customers from the threats posed by..." ? In reality though, the statement should end up like "protect our customers from the threats posed by the rest of our customers". China may...
- Tags: Telecom Italia, Verizon Communications Inc., Internet Service Provider, Malware, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- The key to an open, transparent malware filtering system
- The key to an open, transparent malware filtering systemOpen DNShttp://www.opendns.com/Easy to implement, not browser specific, not OS specific, tells you why a site has been blocked, custom content exclusion, ability to share/group profiles.It's worked well for me, YMMV.Malware filteringWell said. You've put the essentials in concise but thorough list.RE:...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Black-listing, transparent malware, malware
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- The key to an open, transparent malware filtering system
- * Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest editorial by Max Weinstein It's no secret that Web sites have become a medium of choice for delivering malware and soliciting personal information for criminal use. One increasingly popular approach to addressing this problem is warning...
- Tags: Malware, Web Site, Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- $1 Million prize offered for cracking an encryption algorithm
- It's 2008, and companies perhaps rich on VC money to waste in a guerilla marketing tactic for generating viral buzz, still talk and act as the utopian "unbreakable encryption" algorithm is the panacea of security, or the "Hackers Hell: Privacy That Can't Be Compromised" as they pitch it. ...
- Tags: Passphrase, Malware, Encryption Algorithm, Encryption, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Approximately 800 vulnerabilities discovered in antivirus products
- In what appears to be either a common scenario of "when the security solution ends up the security problem itself", or a product launch basing its strategy on outlining the increasing number of critical vulnerabilities found in competing antivirus products, the IT/Security consulting firm n.runs AG claims to have discovered...
- Tags: Antivirus Product, Antivirus, Vulnerability, Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Storm Worm's Independence Day campaign
- A Storm Worm's Independence Day campaign is circulating online using email as propagation vector, attempting to trick users into visiting a Storm Worm infected host, where a multitude of what looks like over five different exploits attempt to automatically infect the visitors next to the malware binary fireworks.exe. Historically, Storm...
- Tags: Software, Malware, Worm, Exploit, Storm Worm, Day Vulnerability, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-04
- Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?
- The Register covered a very interesting story about AVG. Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to be coming from Internet Explorer. AVG software pre-crawls search results to try to protect users, but uses a user agent that makes the software appear to be Internet Explorer. This pre-crawling is flooding websites with...
- Tags: Webmaster, Traffic, Malware, Register, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Scanners, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Peripherals, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Antivirus vendor introducing virtual keyboard for secure Ebanking
- Kaspersky's most recent product launch of the Kaspersky Internet Security 2009, is featuring a virtual keyboard "a secure pop-up that enables logins, passwords, bank card details and other important personal information to be entered safely to prevent the theft of confidential information" aiming to protect users from keyloggers, and consequently...
- Tags: Bank, Antivirus, Virtual Keyboard, Malware, Kaspersky, Ebanking Malware, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Blizzard introducing two-factor authentication for WoW gamers
- Password stealing malware targeting popular MMORPGs such as World of Warcraft for instance, has become so prevalent, that video game developers are taking their authentication model a step further, by introducing two-factor authentication into play. And while marketable, is the new authentication layer actually useful in a real life situation?...
- Tags: Password, Two-factor Authentication, World Of Warcraft, Malware, Gamer, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Games, Cyberthreats, Security, Personal Technology, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Internet Explorer 'feature' causing drive-by malware attacks
- Internet Explorer 'feature' causing drive-by malware attacksNo surprise hereEver single vulnerability in IE is due to a built in feature.In fact, IE itself can be considered a "zero day" attack friendly vector. The primary point of failure in IT security.what version?what version?RE: Internet Explorer 'feature' causing drive-by malware attacks[i]taking advantage...
- Tags: Web browsers, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Microsoft Internet Explorer, malware, malware attack
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Internet Explorer 'feature' causing drive-by malware attacks
- My colleague at Kaspersky Lab Roel Schouwenberg see disclosure has discovered a drive-by malware download taking advantage of what Microsoft describes as an Internet Explorer "feature" to launch cross-site scripting attacks. The attack, discovered at a compromised legitimate site, is using a modified GIF file to exploit...
- Tags: GIF, XSS, Malware, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Schouwenberg, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- 200,000 sites spreading web malware, China's hosting the most
- Yesterday, the Stopbadware.org initiative released a report entitled "May 2008 Badware Websites Report" summarizing the findings out of analyzing over 200,000 sites spreading malware. With recent data for malicious sites provided by Google's Safe Browsing diagnostic, Stopbadware.org also received responses from affected parties such as Google itself, The Planet, SoftLayer...
- Tags: Web, Search Engine, Malware, Site, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- How Snow Leopard can save Mac OS X from malware attacks
- How Snow Leopard can save Mac OS X from malware attacksBrilliantWell played Dino. For all of the positive of Mac not having the rough history of M$ with regards to being hacked, there are some very real concerns there. It'd be great to see this new version take...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Desktops, Cyberthreats, Operating systems, Snow Leopard, malware attack, Apple Macintosh, malware, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- How Snow Leopard can save Mac OS X from malware attacks
- Guest Editorial by Dino Dai Zovi As reported by Intego and Matasano Security, a new local privilege escalation vulnerability has been found that gives local root access on Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard. While Intego calls this a critical vulnerability, I'm mostly with...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Vulnerability, Malware, Attack, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Desktops, Cyberthreats, Security, Operating Systems, Viruses And Worms, Software, Hardware, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- China detains web site defacer spreading earthquake rumors
- The Xinhua news agency is reporting that the web site defacer which I mentioned in a previous post regarding the use of web site defacements as tools for psychological operations, has been located and detained in less than a week after he defaced the Seismic Emergency and Public Center of...
- Tags: China, Web, Xinhua News Agency, Malware, Web Site, Web Site Defacer, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Channel Management, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Firefox Portable (exe)
- Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured Web browser. Firefox includes pop-up blocking; tab-browsing; integrated Google search; simplified privacy controls; a streamlined browser window that shows you more of the page than any other browser; and a number of additional features that work with you to help you get the most...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Malware, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Internet, Security
- Software downloads 2008-06-18
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