Virus Bulletin - June 2011


Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: John Hawes

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

Consulting Editors: Ian Whalley, Nick FitzGerald, Richard Ford, Edward Wilding

2011-06-01


Comment

Education, education, education

‘In the fight against cybercrime knowledge can be a very powerful weapon.' Helen Martin, Virus Bulletin.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin

News

Standalone comparatives

New publication schedule for VB100 and VBSpam comparative reviews.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

Apple adds daily definition checks

Max OS X 10.6 users get daily definition checks with latest security update.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

Mobile insecurity

Report reveals lax security when it comes to hte use of mobile devices in the workplace.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

Malware prevalence report

April 2011

The Virus Bulletin prevalence table is compiled monthly from virus reports received by Virus Bulletin; both directly, and from other companies who pass on their statistics.


Features

Digging through the problem of IPv6 and email

'Under IPv6, spammers could send out one piece of spam per IPv6 address, discard it and then move on to the next address for the next 10,000 years and never need to re-use a previous address.' Terry Zink explains why mail providers are not thrilled about using IPv6 to handle email.

Terry Zink - Microsoft, USA

A browser malware taxonomy

Aditya Sood and Richard Enbody propose a taxonomy of browser malware with the aim to provide a better insight into the techniques and tactics used.

Aditya K. Sood - Michigan State University, USA & Richard J. Enbody - Michigan State University, USA

New targeted attack via Google Images

A new method of targeted attack has recently been discovered in which the auto preview feature of Google Images is utilized to lure the user into downloading and purchasing fake AV applications. Robert X Wang has the details.

Robert X Wang - iSIGHT Partners, USA

Conference report

EICAR 2011: a 20th anniversary in Austria

Eddy Willems reports on some of the topics, debates and research presented at the EICAR 2011 conference.

Eddy Willems - EICAR and G Data, Belgium

Comparative review

VB100 Comparative review on Windows Server 2008 R2

This month's VB100 comparative review on Windows Server 2008 brought highs and lows for the VB test team - some excellent detection rates tempered by some unruly and uncooperative behaviour. John Hawes has all the details.

John Hawes - Virus Bulletin

Calendar

Anti-malware industry events

Must-attend events in the anti-malware industry - dates, locations and further details.


 

Latest articles:

Nexus Android banking botnet – compromising C&C panels and dissecting mobile AppInjects

Aditya Sood & Rohit Bansal provide details of a security vulnerability in the Nexus Android botnet C&C panel that was exploited to compromise the C&C panel in order to gather threat intelligence, and present a model of mobile AppInjects.

Cryptojacking on the fly: TeamTNT using NVIDIA drivers to mine cryptocurrency

TeamTNT is known for attacking insecure and vulnerable Kubernetes deployments in order to infiltrate organizations’ dedicated environments and transform them into attack launchpads. In this article Aditya Sood presents a new module introduced by…

Collector-stealer: a Russian origin credential and information extractor

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Fighting Fire with Fire

In 1989, Joe Wells encountered his first virus: Jerusalem. He disassembled the virus, and from that moment onward, was intrigued by the properties of these small pieces of self-replicating code. Joe Wells was an expert on computer viruses, was partly…

Run your malicious VBA macros anywhere!

Kurt Natvig wanted to understand whether it’s possible to recompile VBA macros to another language, which could then easily be ‘run’ on any gateway, thus revealing a sample’s true nature in a safe manner. In this article he explains how he recompiled…

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