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The Register - Security: Anti-Virus
added: Sun, 16th October 2005 | 258 views | 0x in favourites
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Malware authors declare start of World War III (again)
Trojan apocalypse
It beggars belief that anyone would think that they'd first hear of World War III through a spam email. But hackers are relying on such credulous fools in an attempt to spread a new Trojan.…
Tennis sites hit by drive-by download attacks
You cannot be serious
Two high-profile tennis websites are among scores of victims of a new wave of SQL injection attacks. The website of game regulators ITF and ATP, the professional players tour, were hit by automated attacks in the run-up to this week's Wimbledon championship.…
Microsoft fights gaming Trojan menace
Resident Evil
Microsoft is claiming big successes in its efforts to to rescue gamers from malware.…
Phlashing attack thrashes embedded systems
Router bricking risk
A security attack that damages embedded systems beyond repair was demonstrated for the first time in London on Wednesday.…
Mass SQL injection hits English language websites
Chinese hackers spread the silent love
Thousands of websites in China have been booby trapped with code written to download Trojan software onto visitors who run vulnerable Windows PCs.…
DVD smut malware blights US forces in Iraq
A different kind of insurgency
Malware infected bootleg DVDs bought from Iraqi souks are causing US troops all sorts of problems.…
Firefox language pack provides adware back-door
Ho Chi Hack trail
Mozilla has warned that the Vietnamese language pack of Firefox 2 was compromised as a result of a viral infection.…
Rogue MP3 Trojan streaks across P2P networks
Worst viral outbreak in three years
Hundreds of thousands of examples of a new Trojan that poses as a media file have flooded onto P2P networks.…
Zango's adware fox desperate to guard net henhouse
'Kaspersky's got nothin' on us'
Comment Zango, creator of Hotbar, Seekmo Search Assistant and other adware programs of dubious value to end users, just can't seem to come to grips with reality. It's coughed up a $3m fine to the FTC and abandoned two lawsuits claiming anti-malware providers illegally interfered with its business after being laughed out of just about every court where it's pursued such actions.…
Anti-virus hacking contest polarizes vendors
Race to Zero intolerance
Security firms have split over the merits of a hacking contest aimed against anti-virus packages planned for August's Defcon conference.…
VXers slap copyright notices on malware
What happened to honour among thieves?
Malware authors have lifted a page from the legit software industry's rule book and are slapping copyright notices on their Trojans.…
Facebook Troll sends mob against Cluley
'Joe Job' social networking attack
Security personality Graham Cluley has become the target of a hate campaign after a "troll" criticising the British army posted a picture of the anti-virus expert in his Facebook profile.…
Shrinking patch windows hit by automated attacks
Quick and dirty exploit peril
The length of time between the development of security patches and the development of exploits targeting the security holes they address has been dropping for some time.…
Database Trojan infests pro-Tibet websites
Chinese whispers
Security researchers have unearthed more details about a Trojan that targets backend databases as well as desktop clients.…
Move over Storm - there's a bigger, stealthier botnet in town
400,000 machines get Kraken
This story was updated to correct information about detection of Kraken. 20 percent of PCs using anti-virus products detect the malware, not 20 percent of anti-virus products, as erroneously reported earlier.…
Trend, Sophos and McAfee flunk Vista SP1 anti-virus tests
That would be a FAIL, then
Top tier anti-virus vendors including McAfee, Trend Micro, and Sophos all failed to secure Windows Vista SP1 in recent independent tests.…
Storm Worms exploit April Fools
Lazy attack aims to dupe the credulous
The miscreants behind the Storm Worm botnet have taken advantage of April Fools' day in a bid to infect more Windows PCs.…
Adware slips between pages of e-book
Iliad reader carries unwelcome surprise
An adware package has turned up on the latest e-book devices from iRex, and will install itself automatically onto a connected PC if it gets the chance.…
Unpatched RealPlayer bug paves way for drive-by downloads
ActiveX-ploit
An unpatched bug in RealPlayer leaves the media player open to drive-by-download attacks, which hackers use to trick prospective marks into visiting maliciously constructed websites.…
Infamous malware group calls it quits
29A has left the building
The shutters are being pulled down on old school virus writers' group 29A.…
Hackers find clever new way to hose Google users
IFRAME piggybacking
Updated Hackers have found a new way to get Google to point to malicious websites with the help of unwitting websites such as TorrentReactor, ZDNet Asia and several other CNET-owned properties.…
Underground tools foil generic virus detection
Covert malware testing
Cybercrooks are developing covert tools to test malware before releasing it.…
Orkut worm feeds on scraps
From social networking to social engineering
Malware authors have written a worm for Orkut, Google-owned networking site that's big in Brazil.…
Symantec and Trend grapple with buffer overflow bugs
Who guards the guards?
Security products from both Trend Micro and Symantec - two of the big three anti-virus players - have become the subject of serious security vulnerabilities.…
Malware writers think global, act local
Mono-linguists need not apply
Online miscreants are beefing up their cultural outreach skills.…
Hackers seed malware on Indian anti-virus site
Who guards the guards?
Hackers planted malicious script on the site of an Indian anti-virus firm this week. The website of AVsoft Technologies was attacked by unidentified miscreants in order to distribute a variant of the Virut virus.…
Best Buy 'framed' by pesky Windows virus
Malware hitches a ride on digital photo frames
Big box retailer Best Buy has admitted that it sold digital picture frames over the festive period containing malicious software that targets Windows-based PCs.…
Growing virus production taxes security firms
The engines cannae take it, captain
The volume - if not the variety - of malware samples has undergone almost exponential growth over the last three years.…
Virus writers charged with copyright violation
Movie-munching Trojan miscreants go all Winny
Japan has arrested its first suspected virus writers, but in a strange twist the three suspected creators and distributors of a strain of P2P malware have been charged with copyright violation, in an arrest that recalls Al Capone's prosecution for tax evasion.…
Love lure used to spread mobile malware
Symbian slimeware spreads slowly
A strain of mobile malware targeting Symbian-based phones is "actively infecting" a small number of smartphones, according to security vendor Fortinet.…
Mystery web infection grows, but cause remains elusive
Security research, Web 2.0 style
The mystery over a cluster of poisoned websites distributing a toxic malware cocktail may be better understood but it's still not solved.…
Poisoned MySpace page masquerades as Windows Update
Befriend an infection
Doom watchers at McAfee have discovered a booby-trapped MySpace page that foists malware on users by spoofing a Microsoft update down the center of the profile.…
Mass web infection leaves researcher scratching her head
Issues call to arms
Security maven Mary Landesman is in the midst of piecing together a who-done-it involving the infection of hundreds of websites that are generating an enormous amount of traffic. Or maybe it's a how-done-it. Either way, she's mostly drawing blanks.…
Excuse me sir: there's a rootkit in your master boot record
Undetected by most AV apps
Security mavens have uncovered a new class of attacks that attach malware to the bowels of a hard drive, making it extremely hard to detect and even harder to remove.…
Camouflaged code threatens security apps
Evil twin hash bash
Antivirus firms are concerned about the emergence of techniques that could render meaningless the use of checksums to mark applications as safe.…
Secret Crush widget spreads adware on Facebook
Worming through users' affection
A "malicious widget" on Facebook is leaving love-hungry social networkers feeling crushed.…
Old school VXers calling it quits
Grownup, shutdown
The old School Virus writers (VXers) scene is dying a death, according to Symantec.…
Ad hijacking Trojan targets Google
Misdirection ruse
Security researchers have identified a Trojan that hijacks Google text advertisements, replacing them with "ads" from a different provider that are likely to be laced with spyware.…
Anti-virus protection gets worse
What is this thing you call heuristics?
Antivirus software is getting worse at protecting users from new threats, according to two reports which found malware authors are getting better at disguising their creations.…
Grisoft acquires LinkScanner
'Antivirus is dead'
Grisoft is to acquire Exploit Prevention Labs, a maker of software that gauges the safety of websites before end-users visit them. Grisoft will fold the technology into its AVG family of security software.…
Information Commissioner calls for more money and more powers
And questions use of ID cards
Giving evidence to the House of Commons Justice Committee hearing on the protection of private data, Information Commissioner Richard Thomas called for changes in the law and a rethink on government data-sharing between departments.…
Win 2000 anti-virus products fail independent tests
Polymorphic virus fools mediocre security packages
Many big-name anti-virus products failed to secure Windows 2000 in recent independent tests.…
New emails address you by name, then try to hose your PC
Spear and spell
Beware of emails that mention you and your company by name and claim to be official communications from the US Department of Justice. They're phony and will attempt to install malware on your machine.…
Trojan spreads using PI wiretapping scare
The Simple Art of Malware
Miscreants are trying to convince email users that their telephone conversations are being recorded in a ruse designed to scare prospective marks into buying bogus security software. Emails promoting the campaign are laced with a new Trojan horse malware.…
Skype Trojan steals login credentials
Insecurity plug-in
Skype users, Beware a new Trojan that uses subtle social engineering tricks to try to steal your login credentials…
Security researchers plot revamped anti-virus tests
Behaviour-based testing
Security researchers are close to formulating plans to overhaul anti-virus testing amid growing concerns that current tests can be misleading.…
NSA writes more potent malware than hacker
Spooky project plots zero day defences
A project aimed at developing defences against malware that attacks unpatched vulnerabilities involved tests on samples developed by the NSA.…
Jailed worm author offered job by victim
$133K salary awaits Fujacks fiend
A Chinese virus writer sent to jail for four years earlier this week has been offered a well-paying job by one of his victims.…
Guessing at compromised host numbers
The fine art of pulling numbers from your nether regions
After much waiting by end users, and a lot of hoping from interested Information Security watchers, Microsoft has finally added detection for the Storm Trojan (Nuwar, Zhelatin, etc) to its Malicious Software Removal Tool. The most recent update, released on September 11th, included detection for this malicious software, and the early results are not quite what most people were expecting.…
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