Déjà vu all over again

'The malware research community [is] the authority with regard to assisting newcomers in the adoption of safe practices.' Ryan Hicks, Earthlink.

Sony rootkit settlement costs escalate

Use of hidden DRM software costs company $5.75m.

MMS mobile phone exploit released

Buffer overflow vulnerability in MMS SMIL exploited.

November 2006

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.

Do the macarena

OSX/Macarena is the first parasitic infector of Mach-O files. Peter Ferrie has all the details.

The great prepender: W32/Nubys-A

W32/Nubys-A looked, at first glance, like a trojan downloader. However, most samples contained not one, but several legitimate PE files in the appended data. Samples with one appended executable would have suggested a prepending virus, but why several? Robert Poston makes sense of the conundrum.

The real motive behind Stration

Just as it seemed that mass-mailers were dying away, a new breed emerged: Stration (aka Warezov, or Strat). Ivan Macalintal investigates the motives of the Stration gang.

From immunology to heuristics

David Harley looks back over 17 years in the AV industry and describes his life before AV.

VB2007 Vienna

Calling all speakers.

Sophos Enterprise Security

John Hawes takes an in-depth look at the latest version of Sophos's full cross-platform, multi-component suite, Sophos Enterprise Security.

Spam Bulletin - January 2007

Anti-spam news; The TREC 2006 Spam Filter Evaluation Track (feature)