November issue of VB published

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Nov 1, 2011

The November issue of Virus Bulletin is now available for subscribers to download.

The November 2011 issue of Virus Bulletin is now available for subscribers to browse online or download in PDF or PRC (Kindle) format.

Some of the things this month's issue has in store are:

• Within the margin of error: 'Only 3 per cent of the webmasters responded... Tanase had rediscovered the Bontchev constant.' Gabor Szappanos revisits Vesselin Bontchev's famous quote from 2001 and realises that little has changed ten years on.

• Viva Barcelona!: Helen Martin reports on a sunny week in Spain at the 21st Virus Bulletin International Conference.

• Spitmo - SpyEye component for Symbian: Despite the Windows versions of Zeus and SpyEye now sharing source code, Zitmo and Spitmo - the mobile components of each - have nothing in common at the code level. Spitmo was created from scratch solely for the purpose of stealing mTANs. Mikko Suominen has all the details.

• Flibi: reloaded: A new version of the W32/Flibi virus has been released. It now supports assemble-time or compile-time polymorphism during construction of the first generation translator code and its parallels with molecular biology have increased. Peter Ferrie delivers the details.

• Investigating the abuse of search engines to promote illicit online pharmacies: Unauthorized online pharmacies that sell prescription drugs without requiring a prescription have been a fixture of the web for many years. By gathering the top web search results for 218 drug-related Internet queries daily over nine months, Tyler Moore and his colleagues have found evidence of substantial manipulation of web search results to promote unauthorized pharmacies.

• The art of stealing banking information - form grabbing on fire: Botnets such as Zeus, SpyEye and others use the effective technique of form grabbing to steal sensitive information from victims' machines. Aditya Sood and his colleagues take a detailed look at the form-grabbing technique.

Note: The November 2011 VBSpam comparative review will be published as standalone article in mid-November. As with all new VB100 and VBSpam reviews, the report will be available for non-subscribers to purchase as a standalone item (Virus Bulletin subscribers will be notified by email when the comparative is available to download). Non-subscribers can purchase VB100 reports here and VBSpam reports here.

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Posted on 3 November 2011 by Virus Bulletin

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