Monthly Archives: October 2011

This brazen tactic is from Malaysia. Robbers sabotage the machines, and then report the damage to the bank. When the banks send repair technicians to open and repair the machines, the robbers take the money at gunpoint. It’s hardly a … Continue reading →

I was not surprised that police forces are buying this system, but at its capabilities. Britain’s largest police force is operating covert surveillance technology that can masquerade as a mobile phone network, transmitting a signal that allows authorities to shut … Continue reading →

Our description for Backdoor:OSX/Tsunami.A is now online. Tsunami is a Mac OS X backdoor with bot functionality. The bot is capable of participating in DDoS attacks, and in fact, one variant attempts to connect to an IRC server with “anonops” … Continue reading →

Here’s the latest of our malware calendar wallpapers. 1280×800 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1200 | 2560×1600 This month’s calendar includes a fairly typical mix of cybercrime references. However, I’d like to highlight one in particular – the arrest of a Dutch … Continue reading →

Brian Krebs has done the analysis; it’s something like 760 companies that were compromised. Among the more interesting names on the list are Abbott Labs, the Alabama Supercomputer Network, Charles Schwabb & Co., Cisco Systems, eBay, the European Space Agency, … Continue reading →

It’s a good one. Be sure to read the hover-over text. More here

Here’s the technical analysis related to yesterday’s post on Trojan:SymbOS/OpFake.A. OpFake.A arrives as a supposed Opera Mini updater using file names such as OperaUpdater.sisx and Update6.1.sisx. The malware installer adds an Opera icon to the application menu. When run, it … Continue reading →

EFF reports on the security of SSL: The most interesting entry in that table is the “CA compromise” one, because those are incidents that could affect any or every secure web or email server on the Internet. In at least … Continue reading →

Neat: Researchers have invented a new form of secret messaging using bacteria that make glowing proteins only under certain conditions. In addition to being useful to spies, the new technique could also allow companies to encode secret identifiers into crops, … Continue reading →

Since June 2011 we have seen a substantial decrease in the number of fake antivirus programs. Right now we are observing 10 000 daily attempts to infect users with Trojan-FakeAV; back in June the figures were 50-60,000. The daily number … Continue reading →