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• Italy: Prime Minister Subject of Spam?

  Spammers have used the recent political controversy that surrounds the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to lure and trap Italian speaking people via an email spam (see Figure 1 and Figure 2). Italian people who love gossip about public people... Posted Jun 29 2009, 05:42 AM by Rossano Ferraris with | with no comments Tags: antimalware, Anti-Spyware, Anti-Virus, CA, CA Anti-Spyware Scorecard, CA Anti-Virus, internet threats, IRCBot, malware, Passwords, rossano, Rossano Ferraris, Silvio Berlusconi, social networking, spam, spyware, worm

• Barack Obama wins and cybercrime too

  It was just a question of hours -after the election of the new President of the United States of America Barack Obama- and cyber criminals very quickly implemented another malicious activity on the web. Anti cyber-crime community research has witnessed... Posted Nov 06 2008, 12:52 PM by Rossano Ferraris with | with no comments Tags: antimalware, antispam, anti-spam, Anti-Spyware, antivirus, Anti-Virus, attack, Barack, CA, CA Anti-Spam, cyber crime, malicious, malware, Obama, rossano, Rossano Ferraris, spyware, trojans

• Reshipping scam: a new cyber-criminal trend?

  Are you looking for a new job? What about getting $2000 monthly working at home? You just only need to follow some of our directions and a good compensation is waiting for you… Attractive job? Yes probably, but what is behind it? It seems cyber-criminals... Posted Oct 22 2008, 05:31 AM by Rossano Ferraris with | with 2 comment(s) Tags: antispam, anti-spam, Anti-Spyware, Anti-Virus, CA, CA Anti-Spam, cyber crime, phishing, rossano, Rossano Ferraris, spam, Vulnerabilities, vulnerability

• We call it RANSOMWARE: look out!

  The problem is not a new one; however, the research community has found a new variant of the fearful GPCODE malware. To be precise, we call it "ransomware" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware_%28malware%29 ). The new GPCODE variant uses... Posted Jun 09 2008, 04:35 PM by Rossano Ferraris with | with 2 comment(s) Tags: Anti-Spyware, Anti-Virus, CA, internet, ransomware, Rossano Ferraris, spyware

• USB drives infected? A quick analysis

  by Rossano Ferraris Interestingly the new year 2008 opened its doors with a surprising news in the malware field. Hardware infected? Yes, again malware guys have showed their extraordinary fantasy to spread panic and disasters over the computer world... Posted Feb 04 2008, 01:48 PM by Rossano Ferraris with | with 5 comment(s) Tags: Anti-Spyware, Anti-Virus, attack, hardware infection, Rossano Ferraris, security, usb infection

• Internet searches under attack

  by Rossano Ferraris Users are being infected with malware from a variety of sources. Unfortunately, malware authors are continually refining their technique. As I will show in this write-up, clicking on the results from innocent searches, like looking... Posted Jan 09 2008, 05:30 PM by Rossano Ferraris with | with 2 comment(s) Tags: advertising, Anti-Spyware, Anti-Virus, attack, CA, internet, rogue security software, Rossano Ferraris, searches, security, spyware

• Ghosts and Ghouls

  A famous quotation from the The Art of War is "If you know both yourself and your enemy, you will come out of one hundred battles with one hundred victories." A malware author following the principles of Sun Tzu might say "If you know both... Posted Oct 31 2007, 04:57 PM by Alain Zidouemba with | with no comments Tags: Anti-Spyware, Anti-Virus, Vulnerabilities

• Trends in Malware for 2006: Exploitation of new and not-so-new vulnerabilities

  We continued to see a raft of new vulnerabilities being exploited by malware in 2006. Some of the vulnerabilities targeted included: MS06-005 - Microsoft Windows Media Player bitmap file buffer overflow vulnerability MS06-006 - Microsoft Windows Media... Posted Sep 05 2007, 12:08 PM by Heather Goudey with | with no comments Tags: Anti-Virus

• The fight between VXer and AVer at XCON 2007

  Founded 6 years ago, XCON is a top level hacker conference in China. It is hosted by xfocus, a famous hacker group and sponsored by several security companies, such as NSFocus, Venus Tech and Microsoft. There are a variety of topics on computer security... Posted Sep 04 2007, 02:29 PM by Spark Zheng with | with no comments Tags: Anti-Virus

• The Culprit Isn’t Always a Trojan

  The day after I got back from a 16 day trip to Europe, I opened a letter from an unknown company who informed me that information about my bank account had been removed by one of their employees. The employee sold the information to a data broker who... Posted Aug 10 2007, 03:15 PM by Nancy Strutt with | with no comments Tags: Anti-Spyware, Anti-Virus, Vulnerabilities

• Robbery, is your data prepared?

  A chill ran up my spine when I came to my front door and it was already open. A USB cable lay strewn across the doorway. I could hear a stereo speaker eerily buzzing inside. I pushed the swinging door aside and confirmed my fear. I was robbed! After a... Posted Jul 15 2007, 11:00 PM by Benjamin Googins with | with 1 comment(s) Tags: Anti-Spyware, Anti-Virus, Vulnerabilities

• Shades of Gray – finding the devil in the details

  In my last blog post , I discussed the importance of malware knowledge and research. I will go into a little detail here to respond to some of the rather "binary", sweeping generalizations that I've encountered recently. Some of the most... Posted Jul 02 2007, 08:04 AM by Sam Curry with | with no comments Tags: Anti-Spyware, Anti-Virus

• Who can you trust to remove spyware?

  I'm sure that many of you provide tech support for your family and friends, and run into the kinds of problems that I experienced this past weekend. My sister-in-law, we'll call her Bonnie for this blog (her name has been changed to protect the... Posted Jun 06 2007, 02:22 PM by Brian Grayek with | with no comments Tags: Anti-Spyware, Anti-Virus

• The Terrors of Travel

  Recently I blogged about attending the recent AusCERT conference, and I thought at the time that hearing about vast numbers of compromised machines and the thriving underground criminal economy was pretty scary stuff. However, much scarier still was what... Posted Jun 03 2007, 07:09 AM by Heather Goudey with Tags: Anti-Virus

• AusCERT 2007 - Getting the Balance Right

  I have just returned to the lab after visiting the AusCert computer security conference held last week on Australia's Gold Coast. You can find more information about AusCERT and the conference here: http://conference.auscert.org.au/conf2007/about_conf... Posted May 31 2007, 06:42 PM by Heather Goudey with Tags: Anti-Virus