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posted in News & media on Feb 8th, 2010
Chinese authorities have closed down a firm that allegedly trained hackers to develop spyware and launch cyberattacks.
Police in the central Chinese province of Hubei province arrested three people when they closed down Black Hawk Safety Net, described by the official Xinhua news agency as running the country’s biggest hacker training website.
Black Hawk Safety Net offered [...]
posted in News & media on Jan 22nd, 2010
The University of Exeter took the unusual step of temporarily taking its network down this week in response to a virulent virus outbreak.
Computers at the south west England university were taken offline on Monday for a clean-up in response to an unidentified malware outbreak, which has since been contained.
By Thursday the vast majority of the [...]
posted in Antivirus, External tools on Jan 4th, 2010
I just read about the tool Malheur designed for malware analysis. It looks interesting, I don’t know what other tools like this one are out there (if you know some of them, please leave a comment) but it is worth some minutes to read through their page.
After thinking some minutes about their approach using the [...]
posted in News & media on Dec 29th, 2009
The malware coder who wrote the sniffer program used in the infamous TJX credit card heist has been jailed for two years.
Stephen Watt, 25, from New York, was also order to spend a further three years on probation following his release. He was also ordered to pay $171.5m in restitution.
Watts was part of a gang [...]
posted in News & media on Dec 21st, 2009
2009 was dominated by sophisticated malicious programs with rootkit functionality, Conficker, web attacks and botnets, SMS fraud and attacks on social networks. With the start of 2010 quickly approaching, researchers and analysts from Kaspersky Lab have come up with a list of six predictions for what will be the New Year’s greatest threats and newest [...]
posted in News & media on Dec 16th, 2009
MessageLabs released their 2009 Annual Security Report, and here is what they have to say about the malware that plagued us in the passing year.
1 of every 286.4 emails carried a virus, which is a decided improvement on 2008, when there was one in every 143.8 emails. This drastic decline is due to a greater [...]
posted in News & media on Dec 6th, 2009
Dennis Fisher has the skinny on a new iPhone app that is capable of harvesting huge amounts of personal data from stock iPhones, including geolocation data, passwords, address book entries and email account information, all using just the public API.
The app, called SpyPhone, is the handiwork of Nicolas Seriot, a Swiss iPhone app developer who [...]
posted in News & media on Nov 30th, 2009
A team of US security researchers has engineered a way of hiding malware in sentences that read like English language spam.
The work is a breakthrough because current network security techniques work on the assumption that the code used in code-injection attacks, where it is delivered and run on victims’ computers, has a different structure to [...]
posted in Stuff, Tools & sources on Oct 6th, 2009
This is the Rootkit source code which was once delivered together with the SkypeTrojan. These days it was quite useful but now after some years have passed there is no reason to maintain it any longer. The AV companies did a good job, detect it easily and I’m not motivated to implement other methods. There [...]
posted in Articles on May 6th, 2009
In the first part of this series I wrote about the different ways how attackers propagate malware by sending an infectious executable file or an USB memory stick to their victims or let them pick up an infected file in a file sharing network like emule or bittorrent.
In this article, as promised in the first [...]
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