Lots of people have web-based e-mail addresses, such as Hotmail, Live, or Gmail.  Some of these addresses are used as “throw away” accounts, and abandoned once they are no longer needed.  Others are simply left alone and forgotten as real life intrudes.  It seems likely that most of the corporations that offer the service also […]

Malware writers never miss the chance to take advantage of big world events, no matter how tragic. The recent Japanese nuclear incident, caused by the devastating earthquakes, is their target this time. The Microsoft Malware Protection Center has been tracking a new backdoor (detected as Backdoor:Win32/Sajdela.A, SHA1 0c3526c7e1d6b8a3d2f5c21986c03f1dc0d88480) that is distributed by utilizing Exploit:Win32/CVE-2010-3333 – […]

A new rogue has started making its appearance from compromised websites: Rogue:MSIL/Zeven. We received a sample (70be8ca73142922fd78acf2aafa9f141a977f15a) and a URL and began our investigation. Let us say from the beginning that the guys behind this rogue like to copy big-time. They start by auto-detecting what browser the user is currently using, and then faking the […]