There have been a few stories about Windows 7, even one about Windows 7 UAC before and now it’s officially on sale I’d expect there to be many more.
As always malware and mass infections is a numbers game so the bad guys will always target the most popular and prolific operating systems to increase their [...]

Facebook has had a fair share of problems, being a large community of course it’s going to be a ripe target for spammers, scammers and malware distributors.
The latest to hit is a spam e-mail claiming to be from the Facebook team that actually spreads a nasty piece of malware called Bredolab. It’s also been observed [...]

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 [...]

I had a spam tweet appear in my stream a while back and like Guy Kawasaki I also had absolutely no idea where it came from.
Perhaps some kinda XSS flaw in Twitter when I visited a site that spawned the message (in a hidden iframe perhaps).
It wouldn’t be the first time Twitter was having security [...]

This looks like a fairly complex infection mechanism combining exploiting websites, injecting JavaScript code then attempted exploitation of host machines and failing that prompting a download for some fake malware.
The way they have it all setup is pretty clever too hiding behind common technologies so their infections don’t look out of place.
An obfuscated JavaScript meant [...]

Once again something is wrong with part of the Microsoft suite of software and once again they are denying it’s anything to do with them.
This time a researcher has developed a rootkit style infection tool aimed at the .Net framework.
Most modern computers come with .Net of some description installed so this could be quite a [...]

So it seems something big was brewing with Conficker, they just didn’t want to do what everyone expected and unleash it on April 1st when all eyes were on them.
Smart move really, they kept quiet and waited a week or so after before dropping some fairly serious and complex payloads (encrypted rootkits).
It seems like they [...]

A bit of an update to the conficker worm that is supposedly scheduled for new updates and instructions today wednesday 1st. April 2009 and that nobody except for the bad guys knows what those instructions would be. Fyodor has rolled out a new nmap beta release to the nmap scripting engine that enables it [...]

So the big Conficker scare of April 1st has passed without any real events, no major sites taken down, no major online terror campaigns spawned.
Just a new more sophisticated, harder to stop version of Conficker updating from a longer list of domains.
It seems like this malware might be here to stay and infecting more and [...]