Tool name : InfectUSBDrive   Description : This is a proof of concept to demonstrate how to infect a USB drive. It doesn’t infect the storage device directly. Instead as soon as you connect it to the computer a message box pops up. Not really sophisticated but enough to understand how it is done.   [...]

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I found an intresting article on the symantec blog why the old pattern matching AV method fails more and more and how they face this situation. A recommended reading during a coffee break. Reputation-based Security: Suspicious.Insight detections on Virus Total We recently upgraded our scanner on Virus Total to include our new reputation-based security engine. [...]

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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 [...]

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Sounds horrifying: There are computer Internet viruses that can make you an unwitting collector of child pornography. An Associated Press investigation earlier this week found that pedophiles could hack virus-infected PCs to store and view their stash without fear of getting caught— kind of like having the machines do their dirty work. In a number [...]

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