Malwares section

Malicious codes of all types, from viruses to trojans, spywares, keyloggers and such

Return of the MBR infector

2008/01/10 | [Original] | A long forgotten infection technique makes a come back in the shape of a new, hard to detect, Trojan Horse targeting the hard-drive basic structure itself.

2008/01/04 | [Original] | A third-party application on popular social platform Facebook lures users in thinking they have a secret admirer. To find out who this is, however, they need to download the application and offer it to five friends. But there is no admirer to be found, only the Zango adware.

Youtube got phished

2007/11/14 | [Original] | A phishing email is making rounds trying to entice users to install a fake Flash plugin. And it's of course a real malware.

Zero-Day spam in Microsoft's aim

2007/11/13 | [Original] | Microsoft's Vinny Gullotto used the term "Zero-Day Spam" trying to illustrate what he thinks would be Microsoft's best interest in antispam R&D

Malicious PDF file makes round (again)

2007/11/09 | [Original] | A malicious PDF file is being massively spammed. It relies on a vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat discovered late September in order to compromise Windows upon opening it. Users should update their Windows Acrobat Reader to the latest version.

Spammers enroll users to break protection

2007/10/31 | [Original] | A new malicious code is making rounds, trying to enroll users in a stripping game for the benefit of spammers. A virtual stripper in exchange of some captcha breaking.

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