‘The throttling effect of fear on consumer uptake of online shopping and banking is certainly real.' Stephen Cobb, ESET.
Much to be learned from monitoring hacker forums.
2.2 million home networks infected with ZeroAccess worldwide.
UK authorities arrest three men in London.
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.
The last week of September saw a sizeable portion of the world's anti-malware experts decamp to Dallas. Helen Martin reports on the 22nd Virus Bulletin International Conference.
It’s rare to see a virus advertised as demonstrating machine learning in any form, but W32/Grimgribber does just that. Peter Ferrie has the details.
First discovered in around April 2010, Ramnit is now not only a file infector that infects Windows Portable Executable files (.exe, .scr and .dll files) and HTML documents, but also a multi-component bot. Chao Chen takes a deep dive into Ramnit, analysing the functionalities of each of its components.
Winlocker, aka Gimemo, has revolutionized the design of ransomware - all the infected machines are controlled centrally using two C&C panels. Aditya Sood and colleagues discuss the design and behaviour of the Winlocker ransomware.
Micky Pun unveils all the important nuts and bolts of the latest instalment of the Sasfis botnet by analysing its packers, core payloads and botnet operations.
This month's VBSpam tests saw an overall increase in spam catch rates, with 15 products earning a VBSpam award and four achieving a VBSpam+ award. Meanwhile, the addition of a corpus of phishing emails demonstrated that products have significantly more difficulty filtering phishing mails than the average spam message. Martijn Grooten has the details.
Must-attend events in the anti-malware industry - dates, locations and further details.