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US court: passwords reasonable security for online banking

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Jun 10, 2011

Security question considered second authentication factor.

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Sophos red flags Google Analytics

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Jun 10, 2011

Popular analytics tool mistakenly flagged as 'high risk'.

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Malicious PHP script hides bad stuff inside 'white-space'

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Jun 9, 2011

Spaces and tabs used to encode into binary.

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Banking malware hosted on Amazon's cloud servers

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Jun 6, 2011

Trojan targets mostly Brazilian banks.

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Facebook scam serving malware

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Jun 1, 2011

Attack targeting Windows and Mac users in US and UK.

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June issue of VB published

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Jun 1, 2011

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

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95% of spam monetized through three banks

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   May 25, 2011

Financial infrastructure possible bottleneck for spammers.

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Spammers use unicode trick to manipulate file names

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   May 16, 2011

Windows executable appears to be Word document.

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Canada new hotbed for cybercriminal activity

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   May 10, 2011

Country's IP addresses less likely to be scrutinized.

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Zeus source code leaked

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   May 10, 2011

Banking trojan among the most advanced of its kind.

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'Son of Stuxnet' trojan found

'Duqu' used in targeted attacks to steal specific information.
'Duqu' used in targeted attacks to steal specific information. Researchers at both Symantec and McAfee have discovered a new Remote Access Trojan (RAT) with strong links to Stuxnet… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2011/10/son-stuxnet-trojan-found/

Attack targets government agencies in CIS countries

Trojans used to steal specific files.
Trojans used to steal specific files. Researchers at Trend Micro have discovered an ongoing targeted attack against, among others, government agencies and diplomatic missions in… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2011/09/attack-targets-government-agencies-cis-countries/

Windows Help Files used in targeted attacks

Files with code-executing properties attached to emails.
Files with code-executing properties attached to emails. Researchers at Symantec have discovered Windows Help Files being used in targeted attacks. Such help files, which use the… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2011/09/windows-help-files-used-targeted-attacks/

Adobe releases emergency update for Flash Player

Zero-day exploit actively being abused.
Zero-day exploit actively being abused.Adobe has announced it will release an update for its Flash Player on Friday 15 April, fixing a vulnerability that is currently being… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2011/04/adobe-releases-emergency-update-flash-player/

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