Fake UPS Document Installs Fake Microsoft Patch Payload
By Andrew Brandt As if we didn’t have enough to deal with this week — after a Microsoft patch Tuesday that brought with it a boatload of security updates for Windows, Office, Silverlight, Visual...
View ArticleA look inside the SpyEye Trojan admin console
By Michael Johnson At Webroot we’ve been researching and chronicling developments with SpyEye since we first saw it in April 2010. This nasty Trojan is the successor to the Zeus Trojan, and it became...
View ArticleAwake at all hours during Cyber Security Awareness Month
By Jacques Erasmus I’ve been having trouble sleeping lately, and last night I pinpointed why. October has presented me with a perfect storm of Internet security developments: I embarked on my first few...
View ArticleOutdated Operating System? This BlackHole Exploit Kit has you in its sights
By Mike Johnson Several weeks back, I was presented with a group of snapshots from an active BlackHole Exploit Kit 1.2 Control Panel. As with other toolkits I’ve seen in the wild, this one has all the...
View ArticleNew IRC/HTTP based DDoS bot wipes out competing malware
By Dancho Danchev Everyday, new vendors offering malicious software enter the underground marketplace. And although many will fail to differentiate their underground market proposition in market...
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