August 2016

Bulletin articles published by Virus Bulletin in July 2016

Throwback Thursday: Olympic Games

In 1994, along with the Olympic Games came an Olympic virus, from a group of Swedish virus authors calling themselves ‘Immortal Riot’. Mikko Hyppönen had the details.

VBWeb review August 2016 - Trustwave

Virus Bulletin’s VBWeb tests measure how effective products are at blocking malicious web traffic. In this report we focus on one particular product: Trustwave’s Secure Web Gateway.

VBWeb review August 2016 - Fortinet

Virus Bulletin’s VBWeb tests measure how effective products are at blocking malicious web traffic. In this report we focus on one particular product: Fortinet's FortiGate.

VBWeb review August 2016

VBWeb review August 2016

VB100 Comparative Review on Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit

The VB test team saw a pleasingly high pass rate in this month's VB100 comparative review on Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit, although stability issues kept the team on their toes.

 

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…

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