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Overall malware volume returned to pre-October levels this period, after two months of record activity driven by ZBot, Bredolab and Pushdo/Cutwail. Nonetheless, the Bredolab loader returned to top spot with a vengeance this period, accounting for a w...

While looking at some Pushdo botnet messages recently, I noticed a repeating pattern in the data. Here is an example, taken from an area where the pattern is most obvious: 0340 13 63 cc 69 13 63 cc 69 13 63 cc 69 53 63 cc 2b .c.i.c.i.c.iSc.+ 0350...

** **Cyber crime continues to adapt to modern services and infrastructure, often leveraging legitimate services for malicious purposes. On top of this, blackhat services are also being created to aid in attacks. The result is a growing infrastructure...

** **iPhoneOS/Eeki.B!worm is said to contain two malicious binaries: sshd, the binary searching for new victims, and duh, a binary found only in variant B and after which some antivirus companies named the worm. This article focuses on the latter. D...

Remember some 10 years ago, when the web browser market was stagnating? Thankfully, those days seem to be long gone now, thanks to a rather intensive competition fostering innovation. A real bliss for the end users, now facing a relatively wide offer...

We have put up our November 2009 Threat Landscape Report, which shows movement amongst annual malware records set for 2009. Malware continued to be distributed in peak volume this period, building off a charge that began in September 2009. Last repo...

Unless you have been cut from the net this last week, you probably know by now iPhones are facing their first set of malware (first ? well, actually, not quite as we have already detected spyware for iPhones): it's just all over the web. Those malwar...

AV Lab's honeypots have just started catching new malware seeding campaigns leveraging vaccination profiles for the H1N1 virus. The message is sent as a notification from the "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)". Because the sender's e...