Virus Bulletin - July 2007

The Virus Bulletin prevalence table is compiled monthly from virus reports received by Virus Bulletin; both directly, and from other companies who pass on their statistics.

Analysis

Lions and tigraas

Peter Ferrie describes TIOS/Tigraa, a virus that runs on Texas Instruments calculators.

Peter Ferrie - Symantec Security Response, USA

Features

Vilo: a shield in the malware variation battle

Michael Venable and colleagues explain how program-matching techniques can help in triage, in-depth malware analysis and signature generation.

Michael Venable - University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA

HaTeMaiL email!

Martin Overton explains why he thinks HTML email is inherently bad.

Martin Overton - Independent researcher, UK

Product review

Product review: Avira Premium Security Suite

John Hawes takes a detailed look at Avira's home-user internet security setup.

John Hawes - Virus Bulletin, UK

Calendar

Anti-malware industry events

Must-attend events in the anti-malware industry - dates, locations and further details.

Spam Bulletin

Spam Bulletin - July 2007

Anti-spam news; EU Spam Symposium (conference report); France's anti-spam database (feature)

Latest articles:

Nexus Android banking botnet – compromising C&C panels and dissecting mobile AppInjects

Aditya Sood & Rohit Bansal provide details of a security vulnerability in the Nexus Android botnet C&C panel that was exploited to compromise the C&C panel in order to gather threat intelligence, and present a model of mobile AppInjects.

Cryptojacking on the fly: TeamTNT using NVIDIA drivers to mine cryptocurrency

TeamTNT is known for attacking insecure and vulnerable Kubernetes deployments in order to infiltrate organizations’ dedicated environments and transform them into attack launchpads. In this article Aditya Sood presents a new module introduced by…

Collector-stealer: a Russian origin credential and information extractor

Collector-stealer, a piece of malware of Russian origin, is heavily used on the Internet to exfiltrate sensitive data from end-user systems and store it in its C&C panels. In this article, researchers Aditya K Sood and Rohit Chaturvedi present a 360…

Fighting Fire with Fire

In 1989, Joe Wells encountered his first virus: Jerusalem. He disassembled the virus, and from that moment onward, was intrigued by the properties of these small pieces of self-replicating code. Joe Wells was an expert on computer viruses, was partly…

Run your malicious VBA macros anywhere!

Kurt Natvig wanted to understand whether it’s possible to recompile VBA macros to another language, which could then easily be ‘run’ on any gateway, thus revealing a sample’s true nature in a safe manner. In this article he explains how he recompiled…