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Anyone who is remotely involved in the anti-malware industry will know that testing is a hot topic – the subject has received a lot of attention lately, particularly following the formation of AMTSO, the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization, earlier this year. Read entire article This is hardly the first time cybercriminals used Facebook to spread spam and malware. As anti-spammers became vigilant with these techniques, these spammers keep up and think of different ways to spread dangerous links to malicious websites. Sample seen recently uses a revived technique: make the email look like it came from a trustworthy [...] If you’ve got only one piece of anti-malware software on your system, you’re not protected well enough. Most anti-spyware programs can’t detect and kill all spyware, so it’s a good idea to run two on occasion, and sometimes more. Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware (free demo, US$25 to unlock all features) is a worthwhile addition to anyone’s [...] The Waledac gang continues to improve on Storm’s tried and tested spamming technique. Fake news and alarming headlines are standard Storm email contents since the botnet’s most notorious variant, NUWAR, started sending out messages warning users of looming nuclear wars. Waledac recently started a new spamming operation using that same old social engineering technique: Figures [...] March 16th, 2009 Posted by Ryan Naraine @ 8:35 amCategories:Anti Virus, Arbitrary Code Execution, Botnets, Browsers, Complex Attacks, Data theft, Denial of Service (DoS), Exploit code, Governments, Hirings and firings, Locally Running Web Servers, Malware, Passwords, Phishing, Punditocracy, Spyware and AdwareTags:British Broadcasting Corp., Ryan NaraineGuest editorial by Roel SchouwenbergAs Dancho Danchev pointed out, the BBC [...] |
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