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Chandra Prakash provides details of the kernel-mode operations of a recent (March 2009) version of Rustock, concentrating on the changes from its previous version.
Read morePeter Ferrie resumes his series of analyses of viruses contained in the EOF-rRlf-DoomRiderz virus zine.
Read moreTyposquatting takes advantage of the typographical mistakes often made by users when entering a website address into a web browser. Amit Verma discusses a two-step approach to combatting the problem, prioritizing the registration of domain typos and…
Read moreMartijn Grooten (Virus Bulletin)
In VB’s second round of anti-spam comparative testing and certification the all-important question was whether the high achievers from the first test could maintain the same high standards this month. Martijn Grooten has the results of a test in…
Read morePhisher sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for phishing scams that netted him approximately $700,000.
Read moreTerry Zink (Microsoft)
Win32/Waledac is a trojan that is used to send spam. It also has the ability to download and execute arbitrary files, harvest email addresses from the local machine, perform denial of service attacks, proxy network traffic and sniff passwords. Scott…
Read moreNew anti-unpacking tricks continue to be developed as the older ones are constantly being defeated. In this series of articles Peter Ferrie describes some tricks that might become common in the future, along with some countermeasures. This article…
Read moreDavid Harley (ESET)
David Harley reports on two important industry gatherings that achieved the magic combination of social networking, the exchange of solid information, great entertainment and a beautiful setting: the CARO workshop and the latest AMTSO meeting.
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