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While conducting research, I encountered a curious-looking new ZeuS/ZBOT sample using a very old toolkit version. I retrieved the sample two days ago

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ZeuS/ZBOT Targets Russian Banks

The infamous KOOBFACE botnet is sending direct messages (DMs) on Facebook . If this sounds familiar… it should be, as this tactic was previously discussed here in the Malware Blog back in March.

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KOOBFACE Spreading via Facebook DMs Again

Despite threats, companies lack policies on social media at work read more

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Social Media: Can’t Live With it, Can’t Live Without It.

In the past month, several phishing websites were observed to be spoofing online gaming brands. The popularity of the FIFA World Cup has encouraged users to visit legitimate gaming sites to play online football. The phishing sites were created with the hope of luring users to give up their credentials if they fell for fake offers celebrating the FIFA World Cup 2010

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Fraudulent Gaming Sites Providing Fake FIFA Offers

New versions of mobile operating like Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android may be in the news of late, but for all the publicity both receive older Symbian operating systems still make up around half of all smartphones sold in 2009. Advanced Threat Researcher Paul Ferguson came across a new suspicious application running on the S60 platform: Calling itself ZvirOK , the application has one primary payload: to send a text message to the number 7250, with the text mumym xxx joker90

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New Symbian Malware On The Scene

Social media has affected business organizations in many different ways through the years and these effects caused the development of a rather complicated relationship between the two. Social media has proven to be an effective marketing tool for businesses.

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Malware Sales Through Social Networks

June 25, 2009 is a day that is etched in the memory of Michael Jackson fans worldwide. Jackson's death took a lot of people by surprise—the spammers included

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The King of Pop Lives On and Spammers are Paying Attention!

Earlier this month, the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO) published new guidelines on the delicate topic of testing anti-malware products. Since then, many experts in the anti-malware industry have been commenting on the said guidelines. Many of these comments (including some from myself), have been summed up by tech blogger Kevin Townsend here .

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What the New AMTSO Guidelines Mean for Users

Nowadays, hardware have become so cheap that cybercriminals can easily reproduce fake point-of-sale (POS) devices that can be used to skim data from credit and debit cards.

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For Sale: Fake POS Devices