December 2008 - Posts

Annual Report PandaLabs 2008

Posted by Xabier Francisco at  31 December 08 12:24     We have just published the Annual report PandaLabs 2008. There, you can find statistics and information about the current situation of malware. In advance, regarding malware in the end of last Quarterly in 2008, Trojans continue being the most relevant

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Category: Security Reports, PandaLabs

The cybercriminals wish us a Merry Christmas, And a Happy New Year

Posted by Oscar Cavada at  31 December 08 11:20     Today it is the last day of the year 2008 and all those cybercriminals who have a "great heart" want to wish us happy Christmas and a happy new year. So they are sending us a funny Christmas postcard in flash, which you can to enjoy across the

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Sony's Home hacked

Posted by Luis Corrons at  19 December 08 01:37     It is not that someone has hacked Sony CEO's house, we are talking about the Sony Playstation Home: Home is a virtual world for PlayStation 3 users, where they can interact with other gamers, create their own avatars, etc. We've seen it here and

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Category: Vulnerabilities & Exploits

Critical updated of Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-078

Posted by Oscar Cavada at  18 December 08 12:01     Today is not the second Tuesday of December, so we didn’t expect that Microsoft was going to publish any security bulletins until 2009. But given the circumstances and the severity of this vulnerability, Microsoft had no choice but to release once

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Santa gets 0wned

Posted by Luis Corrons at  15 December 08 09:55     A couple of weeks ago, I was sent this screenshot, and it is something I want to share with you as Christmas time is so close. As you can see, Santa's Inbox is not so uncommon: you can see spam, scams, though the senders are somehow relevant people,

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Category: Off Topic

AVAR 2008

Posted by Luis Corrons at  11 December 08 05:59     The anual conference organized by the Association of antiVirus Researchers ( AVAR ) is taking place this week in New Delhi, India. Even though some people cancelled the trip due to the recent terrorist attack in Mumbai, there are still a number of great

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Microsoft Updates for December

Posted by Xabier Francisco at  10 December 08 02:03     In this last month Microsoft have been published eight new security bulletins as part of the usual launch of Microsoft Updates , those security updates fixed different vulnerabilities affecting Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, Visual Basic Active Controls

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Prices are higher now!

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  10 December 08 11:35     A new rogueware site by Pandora Software appeared today. For those of you who do not know, Pandora Software is one of the rogue affiliate systems that produce the software for resellers to distribute. You can see more information on how rogueware affiliate

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My friend was a worm

Posted by Xabier Francisco at  09 December 08 05:24     Social networks have been an increasing way to distribute malware in 2008. And, according to our predictions, this will go on in 2009. In recent days we have seen a case with a new sample, W32/Boface.J.worm, very similar to what we discovered a few months

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From Russia with Love

Posted by Xabier Francisco at  04 December 08 11:22     This is not the plot of one of the famous films of the James Bond saga, although some scam attempts deserve an Oscar. J You have probably heard of the saying “unlucky at cards, lucky in love” and as I have never won a miserable cent in the

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Category: Scam

How to get the hottest chicks! (UNCENSORED)

Posted by Luis Corrons at  04 December 08 11:02     Being the manager of this blog implies many things, one of them is the common pressure I receive from our lovely marketing team who wants me to publish every "advertisement" stuff, from reviews in magazines where we have great scores to prizes

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Category: Off Topic

"Constructing" bad things...again

Posted by Oscar Cavada at  02 December 08 04:43     In previous posts, we have talked about tools to create malware, like Constructor/Turkojan , Constructor/Wormer and Constructor/YFakeCreator . And we have recently detected a new version of these malicious tools called Constructor/BitTera.C . This type

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