Fighting malware and spam
2010-12-01
Abstract
Commercial 'malware' production (comment); Android SMS trojans: new platform, 'old' tricks (malware analysis); Case study: the Ibank trojan (malware analysis); What's the deal with sender authentication? Part 5 (feature); VB 'securing your organization in the age of cybercrime' Seminar (conference report); VB2011 Barcelona (call for papers); VBSpam comparative review December 2010 (comparative review); VB100 comparative review on Windows 7 Professional (comparative review)
Comment
Commercial ‘malware’ production
‘The development and application of sophisticated malware ... already exists within the commercial realm.’ Gunter Ollmann, Damballa
News
Season’s greetings
Happy holidays from the VB team.
Spam falls to 2008 levels
Spam levels at lowest since 2008.
Malware prevalence report
October 2010
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.
Malware analyses
Android SMS trojans: new platform, ‘old’ tricks
August 2010 saw the appearance of the first piece of malware for the Android mobile platform. Denis Maslennikov examines three variants of the FakePlayer SMS trojan.
Case study: the Ibank trojan
Alisa Shevchenko sheds some light on the technology of online banking fraud with an indepth analysis of the Ibank trojan which targets a wide variety of Russian online banking technologies.
Feature
What’s the deal with sender authentication? Part 5
Sender authentication is a hot topic in the world of email. It has a number of uses and a number of suggested uses. Which ones work in real life? Which ones don’t quite measure up? Can we use authentication to mitigate spoofing? Can we use it to guarantee authenticity? And how do we authenticate email, anyway? Terry Zink provides the answers to these questions and more, this month focusing on the main technology used to digitally sign emails: DKIM.
Conference report
VB ‘securing your organization in the age of cybercrime’ Seminar
Helen Martin reports from the first VB Seminar in London.
Call for papers
VB2011 Barcelona
Virus Bulletin is seeking submissions from those who would like to present at VB2011 in Barcelona.
Comparative reviews
VBSpam comparative review December 2010
One month later than planned, the tenth VBSpam report puts 20 full solutions to the test as well as one reputation blacklist. Martijn Grooten has all the details.
VB100 comparative review on Windows 7 Professional
This month the VB lab team put a monster haul of products to test on Windows 7 Professional, but were disappointed by the level of unreliability, untrustworthiness and flakiness they encountered. John Hawes has all the gory details.
Calendar
Anti-malware industry events
Must-attend events in the anti-malware industry - dates, locations and further details.
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As expected, the annual VB100 test on Windows XP was an epic. A higher than usual pass rate was tempered by numerous stability issues with the products under test, prompting the unveiling of a new stability rating system. John Hawes has all the details.
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