October 2007 - Posts

It's Halloween time, folks!

Posted by Sergio Piñeiro at  31 October 07 09:10     Ah! What a wonderful day, It is time for dwarfs, tombs, ghosts, sweets,pumpkins and of course malware. We, at Panda Security, are getting used to be reminded of these special dates, when malware tries to benefit from a social event like this. In this

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Spam & politics

Posted by Luis Corrons at  29 October 07 04:10     Spam is really annoying, mainly because you may think spammers have a really bad image of you: lack of hair, lack of sexual abilities, lack of money, lack of university degrees, lack of girl/boyfriends… After all, they just try to cheat you and

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A new way of social engineering

Posted by Luis Corrons at  26 October 07 12:18     Sometimes, when we speak about social engineering, we think about people at the other side of the phone trying to get our passwords to gain unauthorized access to our accounts. When this data is in their hands, panic spreads: intrusion on companies, espionage,

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Security in VoIP Systems

Posted by Luis Corrons at  24 October 07 12:17     One of the tasks of security companies is to "forecast" what will happen in the future based in the data and trends we observe. This is a really important task, as this way we can provide users with guidelines and base our researchs in the possible

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MP3 spam

Posted by Luis Corrons at  18 October 07 09:27     Yes. It's true. Believe it or not, this is another step in the malware world. We are seeing spam sent with MP3 attachments, the audio quality is pretty bad, and the file names are different but try to trick users using names as oursong.mp3 , bartsimpson.mp3

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New Zero day PDF exploit for Adobe Acrobat

Posted by Ismael Briones at  16 October 07 06:55     We have received a new 0-Day exploit for Adobe Acrobat via full-disclosure mailing list. This vulnerability was announced on September 20th, 2007 in the site gnucitizien.org . In the advisory , the following can be r ead: "The issue is quite critical

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Malware articles in Virus Bulletin

Posted by Luis Corrons at  09 October 07 11:40     Taking a look at McAfee's Blog , I've seen a post talking about an old "friend" of us: the virus Virutas, and I have realized that I hadn't linked the latest articles we published in the Virus Bulletin Magazine. The first one, Beyond

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Automatic classification of malware

Posted by Ismael Briones at  05 October 07 01:57     Last year we posted an article about graphic representations of malware , in which we commented that it's possible to automatically identify and classify malware into a family based o n their graphical structure representation. This representation

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September spyware list

Posted by Vicente Martinez at  01 October 07 01:52     This month, there have been no changes in the first positions of the ranking, so the list remains the same as last month’s: 1.- Application/MyWebSearch 2.- Adware/Gator 3.- Adware/Lop 4.- Spyware/Virtumonde 5.- Adware/Savenow 6.- Adware/ActiveSearch

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