Archive for December, 2006

Who’s looking over your shoulder?

December 28, 2006 by Carlos Morales

I spent a lot of time over the past few years on airplanes and one thing I’ve noticed is that laptop LCD technology has come a long way. If I wanted to, I could watch movies on someone else’s computer from as many as five rows away. The displays are […]

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Virut: Mixed Threats and Unknown Motivations

December 15, 2006 by Jose Nazario

Every now and then I get a but annoyed with malware writers. One instance of this is when I cleared my schedule to analyze some malware, and it turns out that it took me about 5 minutes to analyze the sames and find out that they were nothing more than adware downloaders.
But then, something like […]

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Snipers from Southeast Asia

December 8, 2006 by Jose Nazario

In 2006 we saw an increase in the number of attacks targeting Windows, specifically MS Office, file formats. We’ve seen some also attack WinAmp and other media players, and even a few targeting AV software and file formats, but MS Office appears to be the main target of interest. Indications show that hundreds of such […]

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Phriday Phishing

December 6, 2006 by Jose Nazario

I sure do post a lot about phishing here, don’t I? It’s because it’s such a fascinating subject, mixing the motives of the attacker, sometimes some code analysis (ie deconstructing their JavaScript), and victim analysis.
I had a look at the recent data shared by Symantec in Phishers Take Summers and Weekends Off, Too and decided […]

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Blacklist Attacks

December 6, 2006 by Jose Nazario

You know you’re doing something right when you get attacked. Shortly after their appearance, specifically their widespread appearance in browsers such as FireFox 2 and Internet Explorer 7, anti-phishing toolbars have come under attack. The attacks are pretty much what you would expect: move quickly to defeat the utility of the information in those blacklists.
The […]

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