‘I had a sneaking regard for the graphical payloads some of the virus writers were building into their creations.' Graham Cluley.
VB2013, Berlin: seeking last-minute presentations dealing with up-to-the-minute specialist topics.
US mulls idea of offering financial benefits for businesses who super charge their digital defences.
MPs feel Britain is too complacent about the war against Internet crime.
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.
A new version of the Andromeda bot was recently spotted in the wild with strengthened self-defence mechanisms and novel methods for keeping its process hidden and running persistently. Moreover, its communication data structure and encryption scheme have changed, rendering previous Andromeda IPS/IDS signatures useless. Suweera De Souza and Neo Tan take a detailed look at Andromeda 2.7.
ZeroAccess has evolved steadily in recent years, taking control of millions of compromised computers around the world. Chao Chen and Kyle Yang take a look at three of the ways in which it generates income: browser redirection, click fraud and Bitcoin mining.
Can the principles of logic be applied to the daily task of file analysis? Mircea Ciubotariu gives it a go.
The Android threat BadNews has been spreading through both Google Play and other app download sites, affecting 30 or more apps and with an estimated two to nine million devices having downloaded the affected apps. John Foremost looks at the ongoing challenge of securing the Android marketplace.
In the latest of his 'Greetz from Academe' series, highlighting some of the work going on in academic circles, John Aycock looks at malware detection using NX responses.
A higher than usual pass rate was offset by a large number of problems with the products this month, with many tests having to be re-run or nursed gently through as scanners and logging facilities proved unreliable at best. John Hawes has all the details.
Must-attend events in the anti-malware industry - dates, locations and further details.