‘A series of new factors ... are placing unprecedented evolutionary pressure on the virus/anti virus/operating system triad.' Catalin Cosoi, Bitdefender.
Vendor shelves Linux products to focus on Windows and Mac.
UK government recognizes excellence in cybersecurity research.
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The Alipime trojan was very active in China in 2011, before vanishing for a period of time, but recently a new Alipime threat has been discovered, being shipped with the W32.Fujacks.CB worm. Ke Zhang takes a look at the trojan that monitors web browsing and hijacks online payments.
The W32/Mammer virus attempts to record ambient sound as a source of true random numbers. Peter Ferrie explains how it does so – and why the implementation is flawed.
The SkyBot and NgrBot worms have very similar methods of spreading. However, the two are very distinct in terms of the channels they use for distribution. Neo Tan and colleagues take a detailed look at the two IM worms – from their hijack methods and spreading channels, to the other malicious files they are trying to deliver – and give a brief comparison of the two.
During their analysis of LockScreen, Walter Kong and Kyle Yang found that this piece of malware uses more anti-debug tricks than a lot of other the malware. Here, they will detail the anti‑debug tricks before shedding light on the communication protocol and encryption algorithm between the bot and the C&C server.
With a wide variety of e-crime-related threats being discovered every day for Android, the analysis of suspect Android packages is becoming an ever more important task for security researchers. John Foremost introduces Apktool, a very powerful freeware tool for analysing APK files.
In the latest of his ‘Greetz from Academe’ series, highlighting some of the work going on in academic circles, John Aycock looks at the thorny issue of ethics in academic security research.
This month’s VBSpam results were a bit of a mixed bag, with no fewer than eight VBSpam+ awards (and eight standard VBSpam awards), but also three full solutions failing to meet the standard for certification
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