HAMLET. "Something is rotten in the state of Malware"
Written on behalf of José Julio Ruiz de Loizaga. Today being the birthday of William Shakespeare, I felt the urge to write this post. When…
New Blackhat SEO attack exploits vulnerabilities in WordPress to distribute rogue antivirus software
Over the past week we have seen a new Blackhat SEO technique emerge to exploit vulnerabilities in the popular WordPress blog software. Two of the…
90.92% of email received by companies in Q1 was spam
– The amount of spam detected between January and March 2009 has increased slightly with respect to the same period in 2008. Malicious mail containing…
Ransomware Reloaded
One of the latest examples of ransomware we have seen is Trj/SMSlock.AThe main aim of this malware is to make users pay ransom for their…
More than a million false domains download malware using the name of a well-known car manufacturer as bait
– Attackers have used SEO techniques to manipulate search results for Ford, improving the indexing of malicious pages to distribute the MSAntiSpyware2009 and Anti-Virus-1 fake…
New version of Panda Managed Office Protection, Panda Security’s award-winning SaaS solution
– New features for companies include different types of reports for different groups, the sending of warnings through an SMTP server, and numerous improvements regarding…
New waledac's campaign
Waledac family activity has increased during the last months. The malware creators have been using several social engineering techniques to spread these samples: important dates…