UK Police have uncovered a fairly massive data theft operation with a total close to 8,500 victims.
It’s quite worrying when things like this are uncovered as if 1 is uncovered or discovered…imagine how many aren’t found out about, just like exploits.

British electronic-crime detectives are investigating a massive data theft operation that stole sensitive information from [...]

For those that didn’t see, there is a new all singing all dancing ‘light-weight’ Codec in town that is actually a trojan.
Indeed it’s not the first time we’ve seen this kind of thing.
The zCodec software actually messes with your DNS settings.

Users looking for the latest and greatest video software may not just be in danger [...]

This is the biggest load of shite I’ve read this year I think.
Rootkits are becoming more prevalent and difficult to detect, and security vendor McAfee says the blame falls squarely on the open source community.
In its “Rootkits” report being published today, McAfee says the number of rootkits it has collected as malware samples has jumped [...]

Lab rats at Microsoft Research and the University of Michigan have teamed up to create prototypes for virtual machine-based rootkits that significantly push the envelope for hiding malware and that can maintain control of a target operating system.
The proof-of-concept rootkit, called SubVirt, exploits known security flaws and drops a VMM (virtual machine monitor) underneath a [...]

Windows Rootkits are a big rarity in this modern web hacking tehnology…
I won’t speak exactly about rootkits, because it’s impropriate to call them that way… why? Well rootkits are programs that aid you in getting access to root level users…
So in the case we are using Windows rootkits we should call them admkits (admin kits [...]