This is one nasty piece of malware, seems like it’s working on a low level as per rootkits, there aren’t many technical details but it may well be operating on a Ring 0 level.
The level of detection by AV software is quite scary, especially since the malware is specifically targeting bank login details and it [...]

We need more companies like this that acknowledge hoarding data isn’t doing anything for the greater good, to really stamp out the core problems you have to share the data you’ve correlated across the World so everyone can put together what they have and do something about it.
It seems like with China pumping out the [...]

For people of my age and generation and I’d guess for most readers of Darknet, Michael Jackson would have had a great influence on our lives.
The biggest news last week was most certainly his death, as usual the bad guys were extremely quick to capitalize on this and were sending out spam within hours of [...]

Conficker has gotten quite a lot of news recently with it growing so fast and Microsoft offering a bounty for the authors.
It seems like the Conficker authors are really serious about retaining control of their botnet and expanding it further without hindrance from the companies trying to stop them.
It’s quite likely they are netting some [...]

We did mention Conficker when it broke out back in January causing one of the largest scale infections ever seen (an estimated 9 million machines in just a few months).
The latest news is that Microsoft are offering a bounty to catch the author of the malware, we have seen this back in 2003/4 (The Anti-virus [...]

There hasn’t been a viral outbreak of this scale for quite some time, Conficker or Downadup as it’s known was only fairly recently discovered (Oct 2008) and has already infected an estimated 9 million machines!
It’s spreading fast though and it auto-updates itself via downloads from random domains making it almost impossible to stop as whatever [...]

Now you think they’d know better than having Autorun enabled in the International Space Station? But no, they obviously didn’t and they got owned by some fairly innocuous thumb drive auto-spreader.
It wouldn’t really be news if anyone else got infected, but come on this is supposed to the pinnacle of security or something?

NASA confirmed this [...]

Another new development in the malware arena, this new version of Zlob will actually log onto your router and change the DNS settings to hijack your traffic.
Pretty interesting approach and it will work because 99% of people won’t change the default password on their routers. Let’s face it, have you changed it?

A new Trojan horse [...]

Another MSN worm spreading with the same tactics as usual, “Wanna see my pictures before i send em to facebook?” and so on.
The only really interesting thing about this worm is it sends the message in the language of the locale installed on the infected machine, this is pretty intelligent and is much more likely [...]

Storm is back in the festive season spreading some xmas and new year love. They even have a new year greeting site ready for spreading New Year related Storm Worm variants.
Social Engineering again, people are always more susceptible during holidays, I guess they are happy and less paranoid.

The Storm Worm gang are spreading seasonal ill-will. [...]