June 16, 2011 - A digital currency known as Bitcoin (BTC) has been causing a bit of a media stir of late due to its use for illicit purposes. Some readers of this blog will be familiar with and have used a (continue reading...) Read more
April 6, 2011 - Posted on behalf of Jason Zhang and Joseph Rabaiotti, Malware Research Analysts, Symantec.cloud Portable document format (PDF) is one of the most commonly used file formats with which to exchange electronic documents across platforms and applications. Because (continue reading...) Read more
November 16, 2010 - We've just posted the second installment of our Cisco quarterly threat report covering the third quarter (July 1 - September 30, 2010). Where most threat reports focus on a specific vector (i.e. email, (continue reading...) Read more
September 1, 2010 - In previous blogs we have discussed how malware can exploit a search engine’s indexing features in order to spread malicious content. Recently we have observed a massive compromise of websites under the .ch and .nl top-level domains, aimed (continue reading...) Read more