Content Tagged ‘Emerging Threats’

Bitcoin Botnet Mining

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

The PDF Exploit: Same Crime, Different Face

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

Cisco 3Q10 Global Threat Report

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

Evolution of SEO Poisoning

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

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