Top 15 Malicious Spyware Actions

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Spyware authors have ramped up their malicious code to invade users' privacy at unprecedented levels. The following list describes some of the most malicious activities of today's spyware, illustrating the need for solid antispyware defenses. Changing network settings: To prevent signature updates for antivirus and antispyware tools, some spyware alters the ...

Heads-up: Dangerous new customized IRS scam steals data

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

This afternoon, we got a highly customized email purporting to come from the IRS, which of course, does nothing more than load malware. The email is made out to a key financial contact here at Sunbelt (name obfuscated for this post). As you can see, it’s quite convincing. (Incidentally, “Sunbelt Software Distribution, ...

Slide.com Hosting Malware

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Websense Security Labs has been tracking the use of Slide.com as a hosting site for malware for several months. The popular Web 2.0 social networking Web site, ranked 252 by Alexa (Alexa Ranking), is both the largest Facebook application developer and a free and easy place to host malware. Having tracked the various ways malware is hosted on ...

Shedding (Black)Light on the Master Boot Record

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 ...

Spybot Search&Destroy Now Detects Rootkits

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

We're excited to tell you that we have improved the scanning for rootkits. Beginning with the first updates in march we have added new anti rootkit plugins for Spybot - Search & Destroy. Apart from that we have also developed a new tool - the RootAlyzer Rootkits are a technology that ...