Virus Bulletin - December 2010


Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: John Hawes

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

Consulting Editors: Ian Whalley, Nick FitzGerald, Richard Ford, Edward Wilding

2010-12-01


Comment

Commercial ‘malware’ production

‘The development and application of sophisticated malware ... already exists within the commercial realm.’ Gunter Ollmann, Damballa

Gunter Ollmann - Damballa, USA

News

Season’s greetings

Happy holidays from the VB team.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

Spam falls to 2008 levels

Spam levels at lowest since 2008.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

Malware prevalence report

October 2010

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.


Malware analyses

Android SMS trojans: new platform, ‘old’ tricks

August 2010 saw the appearance of the first piece of malware for the Android mobile platform. Denis Maslennikov examines three variants of the FakePlayer SMS trojan.

Denis Maslennikov - Kaspersky Lab, Russia

Case study: the Ibank trojan

Alisa Shevchenko sheds some light on the technology of online banking fraud with an indepth analysis of the Ibank trojan which targets a wide variety of Russian online banking technologies.

Alisa Shevchenko - eSage Lab, Russia

Feature

What’s the deal with sender authentication? Part 5

Sender authentication is a hot topic in the world of email. It has a number of uses and a number of suggested uses. Which ones work in real life? Which ones don’t quite measure up? Can we use authentication to mitigate spoofing? Can we use it to guarantee authenticity? And how do we authenticate email, anyway? Terry Zink provides the answers to these questions and more, this month focusing on the main technology used to digitally sign emails: DKIM.

Terry Zink - Microsoft, USA

Conference report

VB ‘securing your organization in the age of cybercrime’ Seminar

Helen Martin reports from the first VB Seminar in London.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

Call for papers

VB2011 Barcelona

Virus Bulletin is seeking submissions from those who would like to present at VB2011 in Barcelona.


Comparative reviews

VBSpam comparative review December 2010

One month later than planned, the tenth VBSpam report puts 20 full solutions to the test as well as one reputation blacklist. Martijn Grooten has all the details.

Martijn Grooten - Virus Bulletin, UK

VB100 comparative review on Windows 7 Professional

This month the VB lab team put a monster haul of products to test on Windows 7 Professional, but were disappointed by the level of unreliability, untrustworthiness and flakiness they encountered. John Hawes has all the gory details.

John Hawes - Virus Bulletin

Calendar

Anti-malware industry events

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


 

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