Bulletin

Malware gets terms of use

Malware package distributed with EULA.

Grand theft personal information

Scammers exploit release of Grand Theft Auto IV.

Algorithms for grouping similar samples in malware analysis

Malware researchers are frequently faced with huge collections of files that must be analysed to determine whether or not they are malware. In such situations, grouping the files according to their binary similarity can save time and effort. Víctor…

Blended malware defence

It's a well known problem in the security industry that the time taken to get a sample to the vendor, through analysis and finally to distribute detection updates to clients, can still be much longer than it takes for the malware itself to spread.…

Online banking call to arms

'Banking organizations have failed to pledge that they will stop sending emails that add to the confusion.' Helen Martin, Virus Bulletin

New home for The Spammers’ Compendium

Spammers' trick repository moves to VB.

eEye Digital Security Blink Professional 4.0

John Hawes takes an in-depth look at the security features of eEye Digital Security's Blink Professional and finds a solid package with impressive breadth of power.

Delivering reliable protection against phishing websites

Sorin Mustaca describes the creation of an automated URL filtering system for protecting against phishing websites.

Metamorphic authorship recognition using Markov models

Andrew Walenstein (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
Arun Lakhotia (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)

Automated code morphing techniques can make malware recognition difficult. In this article researchers at the University of Lafayette propose a method that can be used to decide whether a binary is a variant of a known item of metamorphic malware by…

Your computer is now stoned (...again!)

Mebroot - the MBR rootkit - is one of the most advanced and stealthiest malware seen to date. It operates in the lowest levels of the operating system, uses many undocumented tricks and relies heavily on unexported functions and global variables. In…