Panda Security Launches Panda Cloud Antivirus: The Industry’s First Free Cloud-Based Antivirus Thin-Client Protection
– Panda Cloud Antivirus introduces radically new protection model with lightweight thin-client agent and real-time scanning-from-the-cloud – Community-based protection system automatically classifies new malware in…
Anti-Phishing Working Group's Barcelona Counter Electronic Crime Conference Unites Global Electronic Crime Responders
– Barcelona Electronic Crime conference will gather IT operations, security, and law enforcement thought-leaders from Europe, United States, Asia and Australia next month to discuss…
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…