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Lenovo laptops pre-installed with software that adds its own root CA certificate

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Feb 20, 2015

Shared root certificate makes for easy man-in-the-middle attacks.

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Feb 16, 2015

Grace period added for vulnerabilities that are about to be patched.

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Feb 13, 2015

Hexiang Hu used tool to detect Bladabindi backdoor.

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Feb 12, 2015

Twitter, Yahoo! amongst early participants in 'ThreatExchange'.

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Feb 11, 2015

Security vendors to receive alerts when legitimate files are detected as malicious.

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Feb 10, 2015

Fabio Assolini explains how cybercriminals are targeting boletos.

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Feb 5, 2015

CVE-2015-0313 used in the wild as long ago as December.

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Feb 5, 2015

Wei Xu and his colleagues attempt to block domains before they're used for bad purposes.

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Feb 4, 2015

Many decent performances in VB's latest comparative spam filter test.

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Feb 3, 2015

It is not as important as is often suggested — and doesn't mean the malware is allowed to execute.

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Storm e-card malware keeps on coming

No end to flood of fake friendly greetings.
No end to flood of fake friendly greetings. A further wave of e-cards carrying links to 'Storm' malware (various labelled Nuwar, Peacomm, Dorf, Zhelatin) has been hitting inboxes… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2007/08/storm-e-card-malware-keeps-coming/

House of Lords warns of e-crime fears

Report recommends harder, smarter fight against online dangers.
Report recommends harder, smarter fight against online dangers. A major report by the Science and Technology Committee of the UK's House of Lords has found the internet to be rife… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2007/08/house-lords-warns-e-crime-fears/

Worries of Storm forming massive botnet

DDoS danger looms as infection levels boom.
DDoS danger looms as infection levels boom. Repeated waves of the 'Storm' trojan attacks continue to be spammed out, with the latest using more eCards to hook in still more… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2007/08/worries-storm-forming-massive-botnet/

Spam barrages take down filters, networks

Report shows increase in spam bombardment attacks.
Report shows increase in spam bombardment attacks.MessageLabs' monthly report on the latest trends in spam has warned of an alarming rise in 'spam spikes', targeted attacks which… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2007/06/spam-barrages-take-down-filters-networks/

Estonian websites suffer wave of DoS attacks

Baltic republic accuses Russia of cyber-warfare.
Baltic republic accuses Russia of cyber-warfare. A wave of denial of service (DoS) attacks on Estonian websites has prompted the Estonian government to accuse its neighbour of… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2007/05/estonian-websites-suffer-wave-dos-attacks/

Botnet DoS no longer profitable

Extortion attacks fall as herders find easier money elsewhere.
Extortion attacks fall as herders find easier money elsewhere. The use of armies of botnets to carry out denial-of-service attacks on lucrative websites, as a method of extorting… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2007/05/botnet-dos-no-longer-profitable/

DoS attacks support political unrest

Estonia rioting backed up by attacks on government websites.
Estonia rioting backed up by attacks on government websites. Severe rioting in Estonia, sparked by anger over the removal of a Russian monument from a prominent war memorial, has… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2007/05/dos-attacks-support-political-unrest/

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