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Our monthly Threat Landscape report is out for September, discussing many threats including Bredolabs, Scareware, and ZBot. For distribution through email, Bredolabs chose fake invoices from DHL/UPS, while ZBot disguised malicious links (all under th...

Last week Fortinet's vice president of Federal operations, Jeff Lake, participated in a webcast hosted by BreakingPoint Systems on cyber security and defense in depth. Other participants included Dennis Cox, BreakingPoint CTO, and Bruce Brody, managi...

Links to malicious websites have frequently been used along with news headlines to provide an attractive lure to end users. The strategy is simple, and is quite effective due to its popularity. Most users can associate with recent news headlines, whe...

At next week's Virus Bulletin VB2009 conference in Geneva, four members of the FortiGuard Global Security Research Team will be among the experts sharing their expertise on the topic of anti-malware. This is the fourth consecutive year that members o...

Malicious links through instant messaging protocols are nothing new (think IM worms), however, recent attacks have been launched that leverage the popularity of social networking sites. I investigated a new link reported to be spreading through MSN,...

Is there an upside to Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance? In an interview with Kim Nguyen, Jason Wright, CISSP, reviews several security solutions that can help organizations achieve compliance. He also reveals an upside for those who may be fru...

Just happened to review our signature against virut-infected Web pages, and I would say, the infection is still very active until now. W32/Virut.CE is known to infect Web pages (HTML, ASP, and PHP) by injecting malicious iframe that redirects visitin...