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Trend Micro website infected users with Trojan

March 14th, 2008 by Shanmuga


"Antivirus vendor Trend Micro Inc. confirmed Thursday that "some portions" of its site had been hacked earlier this week, but hedged when asked if those pages had been serving up attack code to unsuspecting visitors.
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Malicious Code: Trojan.Silentbanker

January 22nd, 2008 by Shanmuga


malware-help0007-12-jan-08.jpg"The scale and sophistication of this emerging banking Trojan is worrying, even for someone who sees banking Trojans on a daily basis. This Trojan downloads a configuration file that contains the domain names of over 400 banks. Not only are the usual large American banks targeted but banks in many other countries are also targeted, including France, Spain, Ireland, the UK, Finland, Turkey—the list goes on.
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Malware: How Antivirus Programs (Don’t) Work

December 30th, 2007 by Shanmuga


mho0012-04-jan-08.jpg"For over 25 years, the computer community has been dealing with malicious software. These little pieces of malware started as minor pranks and theoretical explorations into subverting security controls, but soon developed into more malicious programs that have left a significant impact on the computing community. Over the last decade we have seen viruses/Trojans/worms wreck countless computer systems, shutdown entire business, and impact our economy on a scale that rivals that of a major natural disaster.
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Malware: Hackers exploit Bhutto assassination

December 30th, 2007 by Shanmuga


mho0011-04-jan-08.jpg"Searches for news about Bhutto’s killing and the ensuing chaos in Pakistan listed sites pimping a bogus video coder/decoder (codec), said analysts at McAfee Inc., Symantec Corp. and WebSense Inc. For instance, WebSense found such a site simply by using "benazir" to search on Google. Meanwhile, McAfee quickly located 10 sites hosted on Blogger.com, Google Inc.’s blog service, that were spreading the fake codec.
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