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Web server malware may be used to establish a foothold for the general exploitation of the infected server, or to compromise the server for specific purposes ranging from DDoS to spamming. Some more advanced uses include the construction of botnet…
Read moreOSX/Macarena is the first parasitic infector of Mach-O files. Peter Ferrie has all the details.
Read moreW32/Nubys-A looked, at first glance, like a trojan downloader. However, most samples contained not one, but several legitimate PE files in the appended data. Samples with one appended executable would have suggested a prepending virus, but why…
Read moreJust as it seemed that mass-mailers were dying away, a new breed emerged: Stration (aka Warezov, or Strat). Ivan Macalintal investigates the motives of the Stration gang.
Read moreJohn Hawes takes an in-depth look at the latest version of Sophos's full cross-platform, multi-component suite, Sophos Enterprise Security.
Read more'The malware research community [is] the authority with regard to assisting newcomers in the adoption of safe practices.' Ryan Hicks, Earthlink.
Read moreDavid Harley looks back over 17 years in the AV industry and describes his life before AV.
Read moreThe 15th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2006) took place in November 2006. For the second time, TREC included a spam track, whose purpose was to create realistic standardized benchmarks to measure spam filter effectiveness in a laboratory setting.…
Read moreJeffrey Aboud investigates the buzz surrounding trojan crimeware.
Read moreThe Linkoptimizer trojan raised alarms in the AV industry signalling that there are other ingenious ways besides advanced rootkits to make the lives of both users and security providers difficult. Mircea Ciubotariu has the full details of…
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