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.…
TruPrevent stops Conficker.A worm proactively
As I'm sure you've heard already, there's a new worm called Conficker.A out there exploiting the latest critical Windows MS08-067 vulnerability which allows remote code…
Anatomy of a Rogue Security Campaign
Reference for diagram: Step 1: Blue Shows the process at which the user will be directed to the infected website. Step 2: Red Shows the…
ICANN Terminates Contract with EstDomains
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has terminated its contract with the widely criticized domain registrar, EstDomains. For those who don't know,…