Bulletin

Erratum: VBSpam comparative July 2011

Setting the record straight.

Phisher gets 12 years+ in jail

Phisher gets his comeuppance after stealing information from more than 38,000 victims.

Frankie say relax

The idea of a virus carrying (or calculating) a relocation table allows virus writers to use a high-level language and high-level APIs without having to perform tricks with position dependence. Peter Ferrie details two such viruses, Linux/Relax.A and…

Relock-based vulnerability in Windows 7

Through analysis of an old piece of malware, researchers at the University of Verona have found unexpected vulnerabilities in Windows 7 and have demonstrated that with some slight tweaks, W32/Relock will run smoothly on the latest OS.

SpyEye bot – aggressive exploitation tactics

As a follow-up to their article on the SpyEye malware infection framework, Aditya Sood and colleagues discuss the SpyEye bot and the tactics it uses for stealing information from victim machines.

SpyEye malware infection framework

The SpyEye bot has a sophisticated, modular design and has improved its capabilities over time. In this article, Aditya Sood and colleagues examine SpyEye’s modules and map out how they are initialized and how they interact with each other, providing…

Tumblr attacks – what to watch out for

Christopher Boyd (GFI Software)

‘Tumblr is definitely a hot property for scammers, and users should be very careful.' Christopher Boyd, GFI Software.

Anti-phishing feature for Gmail

Gmail users get helping hand in avoiding phishing scams.

Spam levels take a nose dive

Spamming losing its attraction for criminal operators?

Not so random

Pseudorandom generators are increasingly becoming an integral component of modern malware. Raul Alvarez shows how Conficker uses a pseudorandom generator to produce random domain names while retaining its ability to communicate with the Command and…