January 2009 - Posts

Announcing the First Security Blogger Summit!

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  31 January 09 05:27     PandaLabs has been buzzing with activity as we’re gearing up for the first Security Blogger Summit in Madrid, Spain. On Tuesday, February 3rd, the world’s foremost security experts and bloggers will convene to discuss the most important issues

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Category: Security Conference, Blogs, Panda Security

The new target of Waledac Storm worm: Valentine’s day

Posted by Oscar Cavada at  26 January 09 11:50     In the beginning it was Christmas, then Obama and now Saint Valentine! We knew it would be a matter of time and here we have again spam messages related to this special day. PandaLabs has detected a new variant of this worm, W32/Waledac.C.worm, which

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New Rogue Antivirus: Total Defender

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  25 January 09 11:28     A new Rogue Antivirus program called Total Defender appeared over the weekend. The following data is included for informational purposes only. Please do not attempt to view or download files from the website. Domain : Total-Defender. com IP : 94.247.2.41

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Category: Rogueware

Heartland Payment Systems Breach - Why it likely happened

Posted by Ryan Sherstobitoff at  22 January 09 06:09     You may have heard about the recent large data breach with Heartland Payment Systems in which hackers planted malware to specifically capture TRACK 2 information along with credit card data; subsequently using it in a fraudulent manner, later discovering

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Category: Data Breach

Social Networking, Passwords & Privacy

Posted by Luis Corrons at  21 January 09 12:24     We have been warning for a long time of the issue of adding our personal information to any social network. I use them by myself (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) and I'm surprised at the amount of personal information that my contacts have there, even more

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Malware Campaign Impersonates Barack Obama's Website

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  17 January 09 11:32     Today we discovered a botnet controlled, fast-flux operated malware campaign impersonating the United States President-elect Barack Obama’s website. The fake website looks just like the real thing and attempts to bait viewers into clicking a story

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Category: Malware, Botnet

Rash of Rogue Security Malware

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  15 January 09 12:02     The amount of Rogue Security samples increases daily and today was no exception. We discovered a rash of newly created domain names pushing rogue security software harder than ever. I captured a video so that you may see what the site and infection process

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Category: Malware, Rogueware, Internet Antivirus Pro

Microsoft Updates for January

Posted by Xabier Francisco at  14 January 09 04:25     In the first security bulletin of the year 2009, MS09-001, Microsoft has published several critical updates which resolve 2 privately reported vulnerabilities and a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. If

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Category: Vulnerabilities & Exploits, PandaLabs

The pretty Paris Hilton is attacked again!!

Posted by Oscar Cavada at  14 January 09 12:44     Paris Hilton is fashionable. This girl does a bit of everything, she’s a model, an actress, a singer... and she hasn’t only become the target of paparazzis but also of the computer attacks... Several months ago the image of Paris was being

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Virtualization Security Part 2

Posted by Ryan Sherstobitoff at  13 January 09 06:58     Server virtualization will become a dominant factor in the next three to five years in an effort to reduce operating costs and simplify business. One highly popular trend is using virtualization for data center consolidation. Companies are consolidating

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Don't be jealous!

Posted by Xabier Francisco at  13 January 09 06:08     It isn’t a new malicious piece of code, but the content of an email in Portuguese I received in my inbox has sparked my curiosity. The aim of this email was to install a banking Trojan on my computer. Here you can see the original email and its

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Category: Malware