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 1024-bit encryption to lock down all data on an...

It seems Internet users do not have any peace anymore. We have witnessed a lot of security issues on the Internet to date but never like this latest period, which can be named -to my personal perspective- as “the age of compromised websites”. The Anti-Malware research community is getting increasing...

by Rossano Ferraris Another interesting case I would like to bring to your attention is the effect of the so-called “fake-codec” trojans. Here is what I figured out after searching the phrase “daily dawn” on the Google search engine. The screenshot reflects a blogspot webpage from the search results...

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 for a flight, music or news story, can infect your...

On December 29, Rob Harles, the SVP for Sears' SHC, submitted a comment to my post titled: " Sears Update: Response to Rob Harles, VP SHC Community ", here is his comment in its entirety. I follow his comment with my response and disappointment. By way of reference, here are my three previous...