June 2008 - Posts

Mine is bigger than yours!

Posted by Luis Corrons at  24 June 08 02:19     In the latest months, there have been some discussions about malware figures. My colleague Stuart wrote in the SophosLabs blog a post about this, as well as our colleagues at McAfee did . Today I’ve seen a press release from F-Secure, where they

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Malicious Spam Related to False Porntube Page

Posted by Xabier Francisco at  20 June 08 02:04     It seems that the activity of this type of spamtraps has increased since the first time we detected it last week. Like every spam message with malicious intentions, it tries to attract the user’s attention with interesting subjects so that they

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T2W --> Trojan to Worm

Posted by Oscar Cavada at  17 June 08 06:04     We have detected an application whose main function is to turn an executable file into a worm, giving it the capacity to spread itself. Even though it’s aim is to give a Trojan the spread capability of a worm, it works with any executable file.

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Malicious use of Akihabara's killer news

Posted by Xabier Francisco at  11 June 08 12:31     It is surprising how fast the cyber-crooks take advantage of any eye-catching news to distribute malware. Less than two days after the tragic event that took place in Tokyo “Tomohiro Kato - Akihabara Killer”, we detected an email that used

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Another trojan creator...

Posted by Xabier Francisco at  09 June 08 06:33     Everybody knows that nowadays it is very easy to create malicious programs or new variants of malware generally with the help of programs like virus constructors, which are publicly released by real experts in creating malware. As we mentioned in a previously

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Be careful with Tixcet.A

Posted by Oscar Cavada at  02 June 08 10:45     PandaLabs has recently discovered the worm Tixcet.A It is a very destructive worm, as it deletes files with several extensions and replaces them with a copy of itself keeping the same name as the original files. Among the affected extensions are the following:

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