What next for rogue AVs?

'The issue facing even the most experienced users is how to distinguish between fake and legitimate antivirus solutions before installing them on a computer.' Dmitry Bestuzhev, Kaspersky Lab

China starts to clean up its act

China slides down the rankings of top spam-producing countries.

Messaging anti-abuse award

MAAWG introduces memorial award to honour the behind-the-scenes contributors who make the Internet safer for all.

Hackers hacked

Russian cybercrime forum gets taste of its own medicine.

January 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.

Flibi night

Drawing on some parallels with molecular biology, the W32/Flibi virus attempts to evolve new behaviours in order to evade detection. Peter Ferrie has the details.

Defeating mTANs for profit – part one

Until recently, malware on mobile devices had not been used for organized crime involving large amounts of money. This changed when the infamous Zeus gang, known for targeting online banking, started to show a clear interest in infecting mobile phones and released a new version of their bot to propagate a trojan for mobile phones. Axelle Apvrille and Kyle Yang present an indepth analysis of the Zitmo trojan.

Canada’s new anti-spam law

With the passage of bill C-28 in December, Canada became the last of the G-8 countries to make spamming illegal. John Levine, who was involved in the development of the bill, outlines the new law and its implications.

A nice drop of Cocoa

Mac security in general attracts a lot of attention these days, and with this in mind David Harley reviews a book that aims to help Mac developers build security into their apps from the beginning of the development process.

VBSpam comparative review March 2011

In this month's VBSpam test 18 out of 19 full solutions achieved VBSpam certification. Martijn Grooten has the details.

Anti-malware industry events

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