by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
There’s an interesting paper out by Veronique De Rugy of George Mason University, with some disturbing statistics as to how much money we’re spending right now as a nation on security. This does not included DOD spending — just the Department of Homeland Security:TSA...
by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
Andreas Marx has published a new set of tests of antivirus products. From Andreas:The number of unique malware samples received by AV-Test.org increased from 333,000 in 2005 to 972,000 in 2006 and reached 5,490,000 in 2007. During January and February 2008 alone we...
by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
Just a bit of irony that I got today from my colleague Juha Kauppinen. Macvirus.org, a website dedicated to “keeping an eye on Mac viruses”, has had their discussion forums seeded with vast amounts of forum spam pushing various junk and lots of hardcore porn,...
by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
Hi all, Adam Thomas here from Sunbelt’s malware research team. I wanted to post a brief follow up to Alex’s earlier blog post re: the wave of “3D Screensaver” spam that we have been seeing.Further investigation into this malware points back to the infamous malware...
by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
Over the past 24 hours, we’ve have seen a rash of malicious spam pushing screensavers that are, in reality, backdoor trojans (VirustTotal report here, with very poor detection by most engines). It is unknown how widespread these spams are.Both of the sites that we...
