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December 31, 2008 - We have just published the Annual report PandaLabs 2008. There, you can find statistics and information about the current situation of malware.In advance, regarding malware in the end of last Quarterly in 2008, Trojans continue being the most (continue reading...) Read more
December 31, 2008 - Got a copy of the "Homeview Installer" today which looked harmless enough…During installation, it runs the user through a series of procedures that look pretty routine. (continue reading...) Read more
December 31, 2008 - The video that we mentioned last week is now online.There's a link from the security summary, or else you can check it out from the lab's YouTube channel. (continue reading...) Read more
December 31, 2008 - Today it is the last day of the year 2008 and all those cybercriminals who have a "great heart" want to wish us happy Christmas and a happy new year.So they are sending us a (continue reading...) Read more
December 30, 2008 - Year-end lists are quite popular at this time of the year — here’s our own top threats in 2008. Most Prolific: Mass Compromises Attacks were targeted to a specific group of users and were targeted at (continue reading...) Read more
December 30, 2008 - Websense® Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered that a Chinese government affairs information site has been compromised and is infecting site visitors with malicious code. The malicious code has been inserted into the notice board of the site, (continue reading...) Read more
December 30, 2008 - I hope you had a lovely holiday. I am tired and perhaps ate a bit too much, but I had a wonderful time with my family. This past week, I came across a great article in Forbes magazine’s website by (continue reading...) Read more
December 30, 2008 - The last major event of the year has just ended: The 25th Chaos Communication Congress’ Closing Ceremony just took place. Now in its 25th year, making it one of the oldest annual IT security conferences on the planet, more (continue reading...) Read more
December 30, 2008 - Hi everyone. This is Maarten Van Horenbeeck. I just joined the Microsoft Security Response Center a few months ago, and am the program manager working on the issue described in Microsoft Security (continue reading...) Read more
December 30, 2008 - As Christine mentioned earlier today in her post regarding Koobface and how it uses fake Flash players to trick people into downloading malware, a smart move is to only download Adobe Flash player from… Adobe!Here's (continue reading...) Read more
December 30, 2008 - There's nothing like social networking sites to keep people connected and worms propagating — such as the all new and improved Net-Worm:W32/Koobface.CZ. A little infection equals a little comment in someone's little site somewhere.This version (continue reading...) Read more
December 29, 2008 - 2008 has been a banner year for McAfee and I’m very proud of what we have accomplished. We have continued to fight for a noble cause: protecting our customers from the bad guys and looking for new ways to stay (continue reading...) Read more
December 29, 2008 - Happy holidays to everyone. While it’s been a snowy holiday season for us in the Pacific Northwest (some of us are still snowed in), the MSRC never closes and we are always working to help keep (continue reading...) Read more
December 29, 2008 - A small detail about a virus described in our virus information library recently caught my eye. The virus was W32/Greener (http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=153430). The thing that jumped out at me was that the virus appends the string “Win32.Dakila” to the infected file. “dakila” (continue reading...) Read more
December 28, 2008 - The holidays will be a time for refreshing connections, both in the real world, and online. Sadly, a ZLOB variant is being used by cyber criminals in this recent predictable spin on the malware social networking scene. Users of (continue reading...) Read more
December 28, 2008 - Websense® Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered that the download site under china.com has been compromised. Malicious code has been inserted into the homepage of the site. This code has been changing over the course of last week, leading to (continue reading...) Read more
December 26, 2008 - A significant amount of e-card spam has flooded inboxes recently, taking advantage of the upcoming holiday season. Spam mails contain holiday greetings and a short message informing users that they have received an e-card from someone. Also in the email (continue reading...) Read more
December 26, 2008 - Advanced Threats Researcher Paul Ferguson alerted us today to a report that Amazon.com and Samsung have informed their consumers regarding the discovery of a Sality worm on the product’s installer disc (Samsung Frame Manager XP version 1.08). The infected installer (continue reading...) Read more
December 25, 2008 - Websense® Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered that a large portal site in China named Sohu has been compromised and is infecting site visitors with malicious code. The malicious code was inserted into the horoscope page of the site, and (continue reading...) Read more