November 2007 - Posts

Greetings from Seoul

Posted by Luis Corrons at  29 November 07 02:59     AVAR is taking place this week, at the Seoul Plaza Hotel, South Korea. Yesterday we had a WildList reporter meeting as well as an AntiVirus Product Developer (AVPD) meeting, and we are looking forward to the presentations that start today, such as: -

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Off Topic - PandaLabs bloggers

Posted by Luis Corrons at  23 November 07 01:44     I am usually asked about the people who writes posts in the blog. This is a photo we've just taken today to the top 3 bloggers, so you can know who is who: From left to right: Vicente Martínez, Luis Corrons & Ismael Briones. Another typical

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Fake Microsoft Update

Posted by Luis Corrons at  14 November 07 05:10     This morning we have seen an e-mail that was supposed to contain a Windows update for the vulnerability in the Kodak image viewer, which could allow arbitrary code to be remotely executed. The e-mail seems to come from Microsoft Corp, though the domain

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Video Spam 2.0

Posted by Luis Corrons at  13 November 07 12:58     As far as I can remember, the first time I talked about "Malware 2.0" was at the begining of this year, talking to Pedro Bustamante about a banking Trojan. He used it in his e-Crime Congress presentation , and since then I have seen it in many

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Pandalabs Quarterly Report July-September 2007

Posted by Sergio Piñeiro at  12 November 07 05:22     Today, we have released our Quarterly Report. Inside you will find interesting information regarding trends on malware. This time we include a comparative review of "Kits for installing malware", as they have become one of the most used tools

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Having a bot is not a crime...yet

Posted by Sergio Piñeiro at  07 November 07 06:29     Sometimes, after reading news you may be really shocked: Techie jailed due to an IP confussion. In this case, the information is not so deep, but we can extract a conclussion: be aware with your IP, you can be arrested (at least in Bangalore). But if

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October spyware list

Posted by Vicente Martinez at  05 November 07 01:42     This month the two first positions have not changed, but Spyware/Virtumonde and Adware/Savenow gain a position each, leaving Adware/Lop in the fifth position. Adware/VideoActiveXObject goes up from the 7th to 6th position. It is the most active version

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Mac Trojan: OSX/RxPlug.A

Posted by Sergio Piñeiro at  02 November 07 02:03     Today, we have found a Mac OS X trojan. It is usually said that only windows users should be worried by malware. As we show today, this is not true. It all starts with a lot of porn sites: ispfiltersporn.com land-porn.com lineporn.net look-porn.com play-porn.com

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