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The Induc virus has been spreading successfully around the world since its first appearance in 2009, but back then it didn't contain a malicious payload. However, the latest variant contains a genuinely malicious payload and additional file-infecting…
Read more‘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.…
Read more‘Attribution is one of the things in the IT security industry that is dropped on the floor.' Anon
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreA new version of the W32/Flibi virus has been released. It now supports assemble-time or compile-time polymorphism during construction of the first generation translator code and its parallels with molecular biology have increased. Peter Ferrie…
Read moreDespite the Windows versions of Zeus and SpyEye now sharing source code, Zitmo and Spitmo - the mobile components of each - have nothing in common at the code level. Spitmo was created from scratch solely for the purpose of stealing mTANs. Mikko…
Read more‘Only 3% of the webmasters responded... Tanase had rediscovered the Bontchev constant.’ Gabor Szappanos, VirusBuster
Read moreBotnets 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.
Read moreMartijn Grooten (Virus Bulletin)
Increase reported in spamvertized URLs using domains that are yet to be registered.
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