[ad] Another flaw in the Adobe product suite! It seems like PDF is turning into a complex animal, complexity of course always brings more security issues. It was only back in February last year when there was a bug in Adobe Reader, and almost exactly a year later another one. This time it’s a zero-day […]
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Microsoft Offers $250K Bounty for Conficker Author
[ad] 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 […]
Conficker (AKA Downadup or Kido) Infections Skyrocket To An Estimate 9 Million
[ad] 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 […]
Next-Gen Botnets Taking The Place of Storm and Srizbi
[ad] Back in November there was a considerable drop in Spam when Spam friendly ISP McColo was cut off from the Internet by it’s upstream peer. Srizbi worm was pretty smart though and was picking up again by the end of November. Later in the year the botnets were somewhat neutralised leading to a huge […]
Fake CNN Site From Phishing E-mail Serves Trojan
[ad] The latest Phishing E-mails going round are leveraging on people’s need to digest the latest information, in this case about the Israel-Hamas conflict. They set up a fake CNN site which prompts you to upgrade your flash player to view the video, of course it’s not Flash but a Trojan targeting your sensitive financial […]