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Over the weekend, our lab stumbled upon a spambot application that capitalizes on Chuck Norris’ popularity to boost a particular site’s search engine ranking via spamdexing.

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Chuck Norris Spamdexing

Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO), which F-Secure is a member of, had a meeting in Helsinki in May. During that meeting AMTSO members approved two new guidelines to be published

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New AMTSO guidelines

The Register has interesting article on 50 people that were arrested in Romania for using smart phone spying tools to spy on their spouses, competitors and other people who fell victim for one or another motivation.

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50 people arrested for for using smartphone spying tools

Earlier this month, Adobe addressed a vulnerability issue that affects three products: Flash Player, Reader and Acrobat. While the Flash Player issue was fixed rather quickly, refer to Adobe Flash Player 10.1.53.64 Security Update , the latter two products did not receive similar love as their updates were only promised to be available at a later date, on June 29, 2010.

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Security Updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat

Vulnerabilities in websites happen, especially the ever pervasive Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). Essentially every major website has had to deal with XSS vulnerabilities published publicly or otherwise

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Full-Disclosure, Our Turn

We have a beta of a new product available for download on our beta pages .

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F-Secure PC Booster beta

Ace from our Kuala Lumpur lab has written a technical white paper on the internals of the highly advanced TDL3 trojan.

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The Case of TDL3

We’ve previously shown screenshots of document files used in targeted espionage attacks. Most often, those have been PDF files , as they are the most commonly used filetype in such attacks

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Targeted attacks with Excel files

For the past 12 hours, over 1000 Twitter accounts have been hacked with an unknown method. The symptoms are always the same; the account is used to broadcast the phrase “Hacked By Turkish Hackers”.

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"Hacked By Turkish Hackers"?

Jarno Niemelä from our lab did a study on malicious Windows binaries that have been signed ( with Microsoft Authenticode ).

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It’s Signed, therefore it’s Clean, right?