OSX.Lamzev.A - An OS X malware
November 16, 2008 by Shanmuga
Filed under Trojan Horse
A new trojan for the OS X has been discovered. When the Trojan is executed, it creates the following file:
/Applications/ezmal
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Celebrity Malicious Spam Analysis and Removal
September 8, 2008 by Shanmuga
Filed under Featured, spyware removal
Recently my inbox was filled with spam containing subject lines "Re: Offical Update 2008" and number of catchy celebrity themed storm worm lines… I opened one of the spam mail with the paris hilton subject line and clicked on the single link which promised to let me view a previously unseen video of the celebrity.
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Trend Micro website infected users with Trojan
"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
"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
"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
"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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