‘... attackers can trivially create a botnet that will run on any modern OS, on any personal Internet device, in any location in the world.' Robert McArdle, Trend Micro.
McAfee reports a striking increase in the number of malware samples seen since the start of the year.
FireEye reports a weekly pattern in the number of malicious email attachments in circulation.
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.
Some virus writers try to find obscure side effects of instructions in an attempt to confuse virus analysts. Sometimes they succeed, and sometimes we already know about the side effects. The latter is the case with the technique used in the W32/Flizzy virus. Peter Ferrie has the details.
The Andromeda botnet recruits its bots thanks to four key elements - compromised websites, an exploit kit, a downloader and a mailing engine - linked by four sequential phases. Neo Tan takes a closer look.
With content-based anti-spam technologies decreasing in efficiency, Marius Tibeica and Adrian Toma propose a fingerprinting algorithm that maps similar text inputs to similar signatures.
Aditya Sood and Richard Enbody discuss some of the different techniques that are used by present-day malware to circumvent protection mechanisms.
Recent years have been marked by an explosive growth of social networks, with Facebook becoming one of the most attractive channels for cybercriminal activity. Alin Damian analyses some of the malicious domains extracted from Facebook applications and posts.
Eddy Willems presents a roundup of this year's EICAR conference in Portugal.
The VB lab team expected to see more stable, better behaved products on this month's server platform than in various other tests of late - 37 products lined up to be put through their paces and the team were treated to a relatively smooth ride. John Hawes has all the details.
Must-attend events in the anti-malware industry - dates, locations and further details.