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April 2007
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Hop, Hop, PhishAn increasing volume of web-based malware campaigns use compromised legitimate sites in their infection mechanisms. The technique is very common in phishing as well of course. As an example, one seen today... 27 April 2007 16:10 GMT
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W32/Liji-A virus propagationA new virus appeared today albeit in a different way in which it infects and propagates. The virus W32/Liji-A contains 2 differents core components. It has an executable (exe) and when run also drops a... 25 April 2007 07:56 GMT
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Isle of Man PhishUK element to a phishing attack against PayPal today. The spammed out phish email (below) provided three different links, all to a .location.html file on what appear to be 3 compromised boxes (one in Japan,... 23 April 2007 16:32 GMT
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Talk to SophosLabsSophosLabs will be at Infosec Europe next week. Come along and talk to our experts about security and control of your networks. 20 April 2007 15:59 GMT
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Music Loving Malware writersWith so much of the malware we see being variants, I was interested in the a new ‘A’ variant published today. W32/Pahatia-A it turned out that it was using the same type of techniques as I... 20 April 2007 13:02 GMT
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Silly MalwareToday we added detection for a simple worm W32/SillyFDC-Y which reminder me of ‘old school’ malware. The worm periodically copies itself to removable media such as USB keys. It tries to create a... 19 April 2007 17:42 GMT
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Virginia Tech targetted malwareWe’ve just seen some Brazilian spam promising footage from a camera-phone of the Virginia shootings. VIRGINIA.scr which is currently detected as Mal/Packer. 19 April 2007 09:39 GMT
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