Bulletin

Tracking the 2012 Sasfis campaign

Micky Pun (Fortinet)

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.

Inside a Black Hole: Part 1

Gabor Szappanos (Sophos)

The most actively deployed exploit kit over the past year has without doubt been the Blackhole exploit kit. Gabor Szappanos attempts to fill in the (black)holes in our knowledge about this threat. In this article he covers how the server-side code…

Cridex botnet preview

Neo Tan (Fortinet)

Carmen Liang and Neo Tan focus on a detailed analysis of the Cridex banking trojan's injection routine, communication protocol, encryption scheme and working mechanism in order to shed light on the development path of the three most recent…

Operation Desolation

Paul Baccas (Sophos)

Paul Baccas reviews a short story by Windows systems internals expert and Microsoft Technical Fellow, Mark Russinovich: Operation Desolation.

Filename: BUGGY.COD.E

Raul Alvarez takes a close look at a recently discovered piece of malware that infects documents and executable files at the same time.

Trojan Horse

Paul Baccas (Sophos)

Paul Baccas reviews Mark Russinovich's latest malware-themed thriller, Trojan Horse.

Code injection via return-oriented programming

Code injection first became popular in game cheats, where it was used to change the program’s course of execution. Wayne Low looks at a piece of malware that takes advantage of the Windows messages flaw to perform code injection.

Is AV the old dog?

‘Anti-virus does a very good job, but ... missing once is seen as failure in general.' Greg Day, Symantec.

VGrep: the rose revived

VB relaunches VGrep tool.

EU’s biggest cyber test a success

European banks, information security agencies and governments participate in Europe’s biggest cyber security test.