Monday, April 21st, 2008
Almost everyone knows what CSRF or better unauthorized requests are. I never really embraced CSRF as the correct term for unauthorized request issues, because the term is outdated and inadequate to contemporary hacking. For me, an unauthorized request is the layer or automation of a hacking procedure without direct interference ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
We've seen tons of banking trojans lately, but now we've run into something quite unique.
This new banking trojan was found today from a drive-by-download site. We've added detection for it as Win32.Pril.A
It not only infects the MBR of the machine, but also reflashes the boot code in the Flash BIOS, ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
A while ago we blogged about the MBR rootkit, which has been getting attention from all the security vendors. We're glad to inform you that the latest version of the F-Secure BlackLight standalone rootkit scanner now detects MBR rootkit infections.
BlackLight has stood the test of time ever since it was ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
While there might not be new malicious threats under the sun, there are plenty of new ways to spin old virus attacks. Trend Micro researchers discovered last weekend a new variation of a MBR rootkit released in the wild, which contains new technology to prevent detection. When combined with Web ...
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