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Paper: Mayhem - a hidden threat for *nix web servers

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Jul 17, 2014

New kind of malware has the functions of a traditional Windows bot, but can act under restricted privileges in the system.

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Google's Project Zero to hunt for zero-days

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Jul 16, 2014

Bugs to be reported to the vendor only, and to become public once patched.

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Paper: API-EPO

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Jul 14, 2014

Raul Alvarez studies the unique EPO methodology used by the W32/Daum file infector.

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Paper: Not old enough to be forgotten: the new chic of Visual Basic 6

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Jul 10, 2014

Marion Marschalek looks at two Miuref binaries: one packed with Visual Basic 6 and one with C++.

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Paper: VBA is not dead!

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Jul 7, 2014

Gabor Szappanos looks at the resurgence of malicious VBA macros that use social engineering to activate.

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'Cyber attack on hedge fund' turns out to be internal 'scenario' used by BAE Systems

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Jul 3, 2014

Story that appeared to be taken from fiction turns out... to have been fiction.

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Paper: Obfuscation in Android malware, and how to fight back

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Jul 2, 2014

Axelle Apvrille and Ruchna Nigam look at both off-the-shelf products and custom obfuscation techniques.

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Virus Bulletin celebrates 25th birthday by making all content free

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Jul 1, 2014

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Exploit kit requires link to be clicked before redirection

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Jun 23, 2014

Automatic analysis of malicious payloads becomes a little bit harder again.

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Cheap Android phone comes shipped with spyware

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Jun 19, 2014

Trojan masquerades as Google Play app; cannot be removed.

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DMARC: an imperfect solution that can make a big difference

US Senator Ron Wyden has asked the Department of Homeland Security to implement DMARC. Martijn Grooten looks at what difference this could make for phishing attacks impersonating the US federal governent.
US Senator Ron Wyden has written a letter (pdf) to the Department of Homeland Security, urging the US government to implement DMARC to "ensure hackers cannot send emails that… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2017/07/dmarc-imperfect-solution-can-make-big-difference/

TorrentLocker spam has DMARC enabled

Use of email authentication technique unlikely to bring any advantage.
Use of email authentication technique unlikely to bring any advantage. Last week, Trend Micro researcher Jon Oliver (who presented a paper on Twitter abuse at VB2014) wrote an… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2015/03/torrentlocker-spam-has-dmarc-enabled/

Impressive results in latest VBSpam test

Excellent performances in spam filter test - plus evidence of a correlation between spam 'passing' SPF and an increased delivery rate.
Excellent performances in spam filter test - plus evidence of a correlation between spam 'passing' SPF and an increased delivery rate. No fewer than ten anti-spam solutions… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2013/02/impressive-results-latest-vbspam-test/

EU report suggests 95% of email is spam

Less than five per cent of all SMTP connections result in an email being delivered into a user's inbox.
Less than five per cent of all SMTP connections result in an email being delivered into a user's inbox. A survey carried out by the European Network and Information Security Agency… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2010/01/eu-report-suggests-95-email-spam/

VB announces latest VBSpam certification results

Two products achieve top level VBSpam Platinum award.
Two products achieve top level VBSpam Platinum award. Virus Bulletin has announced the results of its second comparative review of anti-spam products, revealing two top-level… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2009/07/vb-announces-latest-vbspam-certification-results/

DKIM usage shows significant growth

US banks urged to use authentication method
US banks urged to use authentication method In a report on its website, Internet giant Cisco states it has been seeing almost 700,000 non-spam messages that contain valid DKIM… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2009/06/dkim-usage-shows-significant-growth/

Sender authentication checks on the rise

SPF records creep into top ten content triggers checked by ISPs.
SPF records creep into top ten content triggers checked by ISPs. A report by email marketing software provider Lyris has revealed that use of the Sender Policy Framework (SPF)… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2007/09/sender-authentication-checks-rise/

Unsafe computing in abundance

Reports and statistics on unsafe computing practices.
Reports and statistics on unsafe computing practices. Last month saw a flurry of reports and statistics on unsafe computing practices. To kick off, almost a quarter of… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2007/09/unsafe-computing-abundance/

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