August 16, 2011 - Bitcoins have been in the news in recent months and there has been much discussion on them, as part of public discourse. In terms of how bitcoins are being targeted by malware, we’ve seen past attempts (continue reading...) Read more
August 15, 2011 - After a public outcry and a write-in campaign failed to convince the creators of ‘Dog Wars’ to discontinue work on their app, it appears that protester(s) have now taken to targeting the users of the app directly in order to (continue reading...) Read more
August 10, 2011 - Just as they sound, pump-and-dump stocks are promoted (pumped) by their owners in order to inflate the price of the stocks as much as possible so that they may then be sold (dumped) before their valuation crashes back to reality. (continue reading...) Read more
August 9, 2011 - Hello and welcome to this month’s blog on Microsoft's patch releases. This is an average month—the vendor is releasing 13 bulletins covering a total of 22 vulnerabilities. Three of the issues are rated critical and they affect Internet Explorer and Windows (continue reading...) Read more
August 8, 2011 - A Master Boot Record (MBR) is an area of the hard disk (usually the first sector) used by a computer to perform start up operations. It is one of the first things to be read and executed by the (continue reading...) Read more
August 4, 2011 - McAfee published an interesting report yesterday about what they called Operation Shady RAT, focusing on a series of what some may call “advanced persistent threat” attacks. The attacks were dubbed in some quarters as “one of the largest series (continue reading...) Read more
August 3, 2011 - by Francisco Pardo and Nick Johnston Spammers are never idle when it comes to finding new ways to bypass mail filters—after all, this is crucial to a spammer's success. Recently, we've seen a low but steady number of spam messages in (continue reading...) Read more
August 3, 2011 - Threats making or transmitting unauthorized audio recordings are not a new concept, though they have largely been limited to proof-of-concept demonstrations and final-year university projects. This is a vector that generates a lot of intrigue from researchers, as it pertains (continue reading...) Read more
August 3, 2011 - We’ve published a detailed analysis of Sality in a whitepaper titled, “Sality: Story of a Peer-to-Peer Viral Network.” Sality is a file infector that spreads by infecting executable files and by replicating itself across network shares. Infected hosts join a (continue reading...) Read more
July 28, 2011 - The application's digital signature cannot be verified. Do you want to run the application? By: Rodrigo Calvo, CISSP Sebastian Brenner, CISSP Infostealer.Bancos is a detection name used by Symantec to identify particular malicious software programs that gather confidential financial information from (continue reading...) Read more
July 25, 2011 - The five-time Grammy award winner Amy Winehouse was found dead in London on July 23rd. Symantec has already observed spammers who are trying to capitalize on related news headlines by sending out malicious threats less than a day after the (continue reading...) Read more
July 22, 2011 - Like the career of a one hit wonder pop star, it started with a bang and went out with a whisper. Almost two years ago, the big news was about Operation Phish Phry. In October 2009, the FBI announced that (continue reading...) Read more
July 20, 2011 - What is a spammer’s route to success? When he manages to bypass the labyrinth of spam filters to reach your inbox! But with filters becoming more advanced by the day, spammers have to continuously re-invent their attacks. The next question (continue reading...) Read more
July 20, 2011 - What is a spammer’s route to success? When he manages to bypass the labyrinth of spam filters to reach your inbox! But with filters becoming more advanced by the day, spammers have to continuously re-invent their attacks. The next question (continue reading...) Read more
July 18, 2011 - A quick online search would reveal a number of articles declaring any one of the last few years as being the “year of mobile malware.” Conversely, these searches also reveal claims that the same years are not going to be (continue reading...) Read more
July 18, 2011 - A quick online search would reveal a number of articles declaring any one of the last few years as being the “year of mobile malware.” Conversely, these searches also reveal claims that the same years are not going to be (continue reading...) Read more
July 15, 2011 - Surveys are a great window into people’s minds, especially when they can illuminate contrasting, and even contradictory, behaviors in the same group. Results from the Symantec Online Internet Safety Survey have done just that. The most compelling finding—that respondents frequently (continue reading...) Read more
July 15, 2011 - Surveys are a great window into people’s minds, especially when they can illuminate contrasting, and even contradictory, behaviors in the same group. Results from the Symantec Online Internet Safety Survey have done just that. The most compelling finding—that respondents frequently (continue reading...) Read more
July 15, 2011 - The scam waves in Facebook continue, as expected. For example the recent “brother raped his sister” theme has been changed a bit and sent along for a new run on the social network. It’s the same content that has been used (continue reading...) Read more
July 15, 2011 - The scam waves in Facebook continue, as expected. For example the recent “brother raped his sister” theme has been changed a bit and sent along for a new run on the social network. It’s the same content that has been used (continue reading...) Read more