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 ...

You’ve been iframed

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Injected iframes into legitimate sites are becoming more and more common these days.  One of the latest targets is a Chinese government site at www.zhangzhu.gov.cn: Please note that while the site adminstrators have been notified, the injected iframe is still present in the site at the time of this posting. The iframe ...

F-Secure predicts million viruses by end of 2008

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

The amount of new malware has never been higher. Our labs are receiving an average of 25,000 malware samples every day, seven days a week. If this trend continues, the total number of viruses and Trojans will pass the one million mark by the end of 2008. While there are more ...

Unusual banking trojan found today

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, ...

Stormy April Fool’s Day

Monday, March 31st, 2008

A wave of April Fool's Day related Storm mails have just been sent out. Similar as the other times with a link that points to an IP address.