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September 2008 - Posts

The following is a list of our top five most commonly viewed encyclopedia pages last month: TrojanSpy:Win32/Bancos.gen!A Program:Win32/Antivirus2008 Trojan:Win32/Vundo.gen!H Win32/Vundo Win32/Virtumonde The trends appear quite similar to the month prior: Read More...
It’s late September. For any self-respecting anti-virus researcher this is the time of year when one thinks about the Virus Bulletin Conference . Am I going? Who else is going? Should we organize some extra meetings? When? Where? Is my presentation ready? Read More...
Earlier this month, our colleagues at the Online Services Security & Compliance Incident Management team were alerted to content on a Spaces page that was allegedly violating copyrights. The reporting party (a well-known band) was particularly concerned Read More...
This month we added a new family of malicious IRC bots to MSRT - Win32/Slenfbot . IRC bots were all the rage a couple of years ago but have dropped off a little in recent times. In general, malware has both diversified and become more specialised, with Read More...
In July, I wrote about two of the amazing new instructions in the SSE 4.2 set: CRC32 and PCMPxSTRx. CRC32 is special because of its immediate application to obfuscated import resolution, a common technique among viruses and packers. I said "the VX guys Read More...
No one could have anticipated all the ways that Internet Relay Chat (IRC) would eventually be used when it was 'created' in Finland during the late 1980s. People really started picking up on IRC in the early 1990s, and as with virtually all popular technologies, Read More...
Recently I stumbled across an interesting firmware – hardware contest hosted by the Polytechnic Institute of NYU. I’ve seen similar competitions run before - some promoting team work, some perhaps generating new ideas for hardware or firmware designs, Read More...
Greetings, As you probably figured out from Matt McCormack’s post , and Jeff Williams' post ; there are a lot of Game PWS (password stealers) out there. I decided to do a post on how you might prevent these PWS from infecting your computer. 1. Run up-to-date Read More...
 
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