Spyware Security

According to recent tests conducted by AV-Test.org aiming to measure the performance of Microsoft’s Security Essentials, the freeware application achieved 98% detection rate for 545k malware samples including viruses, bots, trojan horses, backdoors and Internet worms, also achieving 90.95% detection rate for 14,222 adware/spyware samples it was tested against.
However, AV-Test.org didn’t find any effective “dynamic [...]

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October 1st, 2009 | Tags: Backdoor, Malware, Security, Spyware, Trojan, Virus | Category: General | Leave a comment

Just today, we at the Content Security team received a large number of spam with a ZIP attachment that contains a backdoor. The said email informs the user that the product he/she has ordered/purchased online is already sent. It then asks the user to view the tracking document details by opening the attachment.
The attachment is [...]

Post from: TrendLabs | Malware Blog – by Trend Micro

Laptop Delivery Note Contains Malware

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August 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Backdoor, Malware, Security, SPAM | Category: Malware | Leave a comment

According to a recently posted update by SquirrelMail’s Jonathan Angliss, the source code of three plugins was backdoored during the web server compromise of the popular web-based email application which took place last month.
The compromised plugins were embedded with code that was forwarding accounting data to a server maintained by the people behind the hack, [...]

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August 5th, 2009 | Tags: Backdoor, Security | Category: General | Leave a comment

A newly discovered email worm dubbed OSX/Tored-A once again puts the spotlight on the potential worm-ability, and malware spreading tactics targeting Apple’s OS X.
The worm propagates through emails harvested from infected hosts, and has a backdoor functionality allowing its author to perform the following actions if a successful remote connection is established – attempts to [...]

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May 7th, 2009 | Tags: Backdoor, Malware, Security | Category: General | Leave a comment