Demonstrating the Latest IE 0-day Vulnerability
Yesterday, Microsoft issued a security advisory for an unpatched and actively exploited invalid reference pointer vulnerability in the Internet Explorer 6 and 7 web browsers. …
Over 13 million users in 190 countries and 31,901 cities affected by the Mariposa botnet
After the recent worldwide shutdown of the Mariposa botnet –in a joint operation by Panda Security, Defence Intelligence, the FBI and the Spanish Guardia Civil, resulting…
Mariposa Stats
One of the most interesting things in order to know how the bot behind Mariposa has been spreading is to study the geographical distribution of…
Vodafone distributes Mariposa-like bot
Pedro Bustamante has just published a new blog post in the Panda Research blog, about a Mariposa-like bot as special gift in a new HTC…
Vodafone distributes Mariposa botnet
Here is yet another example of a company distributing malware to its userbase. Unfortunately it probably won’t be the last. Today one of our colleagues…
The Thousand-Faced Rogue
We want to inform you of a new flood of email messages that seem to contain a postcard but are actually distributing malware. Concretely, we’ve…
Big data needs big government
Edited by Ian Andrews, March 2010 Last week’s edition of the influential London-based journal The Economist led with some interesting statistics on the amount of…