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As above, Sobelow

‘Heaven’s Gate' is an undocumented feature used by the 32-bit Windows environment when running on 64-bit versions of Windows, which allows for the transition between 32-bit and 64-bit code. In August 2011, we saw the first virus to make use of it.…

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All your lulz will belong to us

‘Attribution is one of the things in the IT security industry that is dropped on the floor.' Anon

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Mobile botnets for smartphones: an unfolding catastrophe?

The number of users subscribing to the voice, Internet and messaging services of cellular networks is increasing exponentially worldwide and the potential development of cellular botnets poses a serious threat. Hasan Ijaz and colleagues present a…

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Happy holidays

Happy holidays from the VB team.

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Book Worm

Paul Baccas (Sophos)

In 'Worm: The First Digital World War', Mark Bowden writes about the team who worked together to combat the Conficker worm, focusing on some of the principal players in the Conficker Working Group and on their stories over the nine months of…

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Within the margin of error

‘Only 3% of the webmasters responded... Tanase had rediscovered the Bontchev constant.’ Gabor Szappanos, VirusBuster

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The art of stealing banking information – form grabbing on fire

Botnets such as Zeus, SpyEye and others use the effective technique of form grabbing to steal sensitive information from victims’ machines. Aditya Sood and his colleagues take a detailed look at the form-grabbing technique.

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Spammers link to yet-to-be registered domains

Martijn Grooten (Virus Bulletin)

Increase reported in spamvertized URLs using domains that are yet to be registered.

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Chemical industry targeted

Martijn Grooten (Virus Bulletin)

Symantec reports of targeted attack on companies in the chemical industry.

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Investigating the abuse of search engines to promote illicit online pharmacies

Unauthorized online pharmacies that sell prescription drugs without requiring a prescription have been a fixture of the web for many years. By gathering the top web search results for 218 drug-related Internet queries daily over nine months, Tyler…

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