What Will Go DOWNAD on April 1?

Much has been said about the DOWNAD worm (a.k.a. Conficker) and its enigmatic payload that will supposedly be unleashed on April 1st. There are two days to go until the moment of truth and the hype isn’t expected to die down. But online threat history tells us that trigger/activation dates of equally hyped malware [...]

Inside BBC’s Chimera botnet

March 30th, 2009 Posted by Dancho Danchev @ 8:53 amCategories:Anti Virus, Botnets, Browsers, Hackers, Malware, Passwords, Rootkits, Russia, Spyware and AdwareTags:British Broadcasting Corp., Malware, Chimera Botnet, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho DanchevEarlier this month, the controversial BBC purchase of a botnet and modifying the infected hosts in the name [...]

CBS 60 Minutes covers Conficker, malware epidemic

March 29th, 2009 Posted by Ryan Naraine @ 6:40 pmCategories:Anti Virus, Arbitrary Code Execution, Botnets, Browsers, Data theft, Exploit code, Hackers, Malware, McAfee, Microsoft, Rootkits, Spam and Phishing, Spyware and Adware, Viruses and Worms, Zero-day attacksTags:Malware, CBS Corp., Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Security, Ryan NaraineCBS 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley [...]