Malware analysis for Virtual Desktop Infrastructures

HBGary unveiled Active Defense 1.3 to provide live, runtime memory analysis of concurrent Guest OS sessions with minimal impact on the shared physical resources of the underlying server. With HBG...

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Cutwail botnet now spreads Android malware

Successful malware peddlers are always thinking up new ways of delivering malware to unsuspecting users. In the past Android malware was mostly served on third-party online marketplaces, but accor...

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Week in review: Carberp Trojan developers arrested, thousands of compromised Apache servers directing users to malware

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, videos, reviews and articles: Hackers attacking US banks are well-funded, expert says The Cyber fighters of Izz Ad-Din Al Qassam ...

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Flashback malware author unmasked?

An estimated 38,000 users is still infected with the Flashback Trojan, the first malware targeting Mac users that didn't have to get their permission to be downloaded, which resulted in a 600K strong ...

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Thousands of compromised Apache servers direct users to malware

What do the recent compromises of a number of LA Times websites and the blog of hard disk drive manufacturer Seagate have in common? According to several security researchers, all these sites are h...

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Malware attacks occur every three minutes

Malware activity has become so pervasive that organizations experience a malicious email file attachment or Web link as well as malware communication that evades legacy defenses up to once every three...

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Wide variety of malware lurking in Skype messages

A new malware-spreading campaign is targeting Skype users, warns Dancho Danchev. The attack is mounted via malware-infected users whose compromised Skype account is set to send out messages to thei...

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Aggressive Android adware and malware on the rise

With adware gleaning more user data from people devices than they would normally need too and developers bundle more than one adware framework into their apps, user privacy is increasingly taking a ba...

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Aggressive Android adware and malware on the rise

With adware gleaning more user data from people devices than they would normally need too and developers bundle more than one adware framework into their apps, user privacy is increasingly taking a ba...

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Thousands of compromised Apache servers direct users to malware

What do the recent compromises of a number of LA Times websites and the blog of hard disk drive manufacturer Seagate have in common? According to several security researchers, all these sites are h...

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Malware attacks occur every three minutes

Malware activity has become so pervasive that organizations experience a malicious email file attachment or Web link as well as malware communication that evades legacy defenses up to once every three...

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Wide variety of malware lurking in Skype messages

A new malware-spreading campaign is targeting Skype users, warns Dancho Danchev. The attack is mounted via malware-infected users whose compromised Skype account is set to send out messages to thei...

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Flashback malware author unmasked?

An estimated 38,000 users is still infected with the Flashback Trojan, the first malware targeting Mac users that didn't have to get their permission to be downloaded, which resulted in a 600K strong ...

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Bogus Delta receipt confirmation leads to malware

Once again, Delta Air Lines customers are being targeted with spoofed emails supposedly carrying their eTicket, and are urged to download and open the attached PDF file purportedly containing it, or t...

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Avast 8 generates detection of entire malware families

At RSA Conference 2013 in San Francisco, Avast Software introduced a new version of its consumer security software line, with a number of new technologies and improvements to deliver proactive detecti...

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Yubico launches smart card that combats spying malware

Yubico announced that the Yubikey NEO aggressively defends against malware aimed at smart cards. Successfully piloted by leading enterprises, the new product eliminates the risk of card and PIN be...

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Test malware handling capabilities of network security devices

At RSA Conference 2013 in San Francisco, Spirent Communications announced the release of malware testing capabilities on Spirent Studio. With the addition of malware testing, Spirent offers its custom...

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Fake Flash Player download pages pushing malware

As you may already heard, Adobe has pushed out an update for Flash Player that fixes vulnerabilities discovered to be currently exploited in the wild in targeted attacks. If you haven't set up auto...

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End of 2012 saw five-fold increase of Android malware

Android malware levels increased more than five-fold between September and December 2012, according to the February 2013 Internet Threats Trend Report issued by Commtouch at RSA Conference 2013 in San...

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The security threat of evasive malware

Lastline has released a new report that looks at how malware authors are able to exploit the limited visibility of automated malware analysis systems (sandboxes) and ensure that targeted attacks and z...

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