Atif Mushtaq, a researcher at FireEye security company, has coordinated a global effort to take down of one of the top 10 botnets – Mega-D. PC world said the botnet controlled 250,000 machines in a massive network that was responsible for nearly 12 percent of world spam according to Message Labs statistics. Mushtaq and those…
Security researchers examining the directories of the URLs of some of the latest Koobface runs may stumble upon a Christmas greeting:
For those of you that are having to put up with looking after your parents over Christmas: Would you much rather selfishly indulge yourselves with partying? A kindly spammer has a very seasonal Christmas Eve message offering to make this the last year that you will have to “put up” with the burdens of family…
APCProtect is a phony security program, designed to rip people off. APCProtect uses scare tactics including false security warnings and system scan results that are false to frighten people into purchasing it. If APCProtect is installed on your computer, you should remove it immediately. if your computer is infected with this malware, you must remove…
Once again, we’d like to wish our readers Merry Christmas with a reference to the 1986 CHRISTMA EXEC worm Here’s a link to January 1987 Risks Digest, discussing the worm. And here’s a link to the original source code for this worm. Normally we wouldn’t link to malware code, but hey, it’s 23 years old.
AV-Comparatives Summary Reports 2009 Available! Summary Report 2009 AV-Comparatives Site: http://www.av-comparatives.org/ Read/Download Summary Here. Overall winners of 2009 (Best Products of the Year by AV-Comparatives): To be rated “Best Anti-Virus Product of 2009” by AV-Comparatives, an Anti-Virus product should preferably have very high detection rates (of malware and also potentially unwanted applications), high proactive on-demand detection…
It’s the usual situation, with the bad guys exploiting the death of a famous person, just like they did with Michael Jackson. Yesterday we identified some Twitter accounts that are being used both to send “make money on the Internet” spam, and also to spread links to malware. In both cases, they used Brittany Murphy’s…
Performance comparative test result is available! AV-Comparatives: http://www.av-comparatives.org/ Read/Download test result from Here.
This is the ’12 scams of Christmas’ I mentioned in last post: Pipers tout fake gold rings as Maids are ‘a-phishing’ to milk bank accounts On what is traditionally the busiest online shopping day of the year (1), consumers are being warned not to become victims of the ’12 Scams of Christmas’ and to take…
Tanya has just posted over on Kaspersky Russian site about losses caused by Internet fraudsters in England and Wales. If you want to practice your Russian, hop over there, and take a look! I know that most people in the UK prefer to get their news in English. So here’s a few facts and figures:…