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22,000 new malware samples created every day in 2008
– In the first eight months of 2008 alone, PandaLabs, the malware research laboratory of Panda Security, received more malware than in the previous 17…
The cybercriminals wish us a Merry Christmas, And a Happy New Year
Today it is the last day of the year 2008 and all those cybercriminals who have a "great heart" want to wish us happy Christmas…
Sony's Home hacked
It is not that someone has hacked Sony CEO's house, we are talking about the Sony Playstation Home: Home is a virtual world for PlayStation 3…
Critical updated of Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-078
Today is not the second Tuesday of December, so we didn’t expect that Microsoft was going to publish any security bulletins until 2009. But given…
AVAR 2008
The anual conference organized by the Association of antiVirus Researchers (AVAR) is taking place this week in New Delhi, India. Even though some people cancelled…
Getting to know AV-Test labs
We just got back from a two day visit to our friends at AV-Test.org, one of the most respected antivirus testing organizations worldwide. Magdeburg is…
"Constructing" bad things…again
In previous posts, we have talked about tools to create malware, like Constructor/Turkojan, Constructor/Wormer and Constructor/YFakeCreator. And we have recently detected a new version of these malicious tools called Constructor/BitTera.C.…