Days after the April 1st activation date of Conficker, nothing interesting was seen so far in our Downad/Conficker monitoring system except the continuous checking of dates and times via Internet sites, checking of updates via HTTP, and the increasing P2P communications from the Conficker peer nodes. Well that was until last night when we [...]
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A new MS08-067 exploit silently made its entrance as the rest of the world was keeping watch on DOWNAD’s next step last week. In what seems to be a case of “old worm with new tricks,” the worm Neeris which has been active for a few years now was found updated with the now [...] As usual, the approaching tax season (April 15th is Tax Day in the US) also comes with tax-related online threats. With unemployment rates reaching record highs this year, cybercriminals have yet another opportunity to polish their social engineering techniques. Last year, spammed messages supposedly from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) delivered malware into systems. [...] |
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