Internet Explorer 6 may have taken its path to retirement but it still remains a good target for exploits, as we can see from JS.Sykipot .

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Zero-Day attack on IE6 – JS.Sykipot Doesn’t Spare Retired Software

We recently received a file (from CERT) for analysis. We found that the file was a Trojan that opens a back door on a compromised computer and listens for commands on port 7777. This by itself is not very unusual, but what surprised us was that this file was being distributed by a well known battery manufacturer as part of a USB charger-monitoring software package.

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Trojan Found in USB Battery Charger Software

We recently received a file (from CERT) for analysis. We found that the file was a Trojan that opens a back door on a compromised computer and listens for commands on port 7777. This by itself is not very unusual, but what surprised us was that this file was being distributed by Energizer Inc as part of a USB charger-monitoring software package.

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Back Door Found in Energizer DUO USB Battery Charger Software

In October 2009 we started tracking the Mariposa, or Butterfly, botnet. At that time, a security company had reported that a large number of Fortune 100 companies had been infected with this threat

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Jailing the Butterfly

The biggest news flashes for the last 48 hours involve reports of the devastating earthquake that struck near the coast of Chile, along with the tsunami threat to the Pacific region.

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Spammers Rumbling as Chile Earthquake Strikes

How many social network accounts do you have? How much time do you spend on your network content and application updates?

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Daily Homework – Log in to Your Social Network Account

We recently upgraded our scanner on Virus Total to include our new reputation-based security engine. That has caused a spike in our detection rates, in particular Suspicious.Insight detections, and so I thought I’d take a few minutes to explain some of the background and what is going on.

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Reputation-based Security: Suspicious.Insight detections on Virus Total

Recently, Symantec observed some high-profile coverage of a threat being reported as a new type of computer virus known as “Kneber.” In reality Kneber is simply a pseudonym for the Zeus Trojan/botnet. The name Kneber refers to a particular group, or herd, of zombie computers (a.k.a.

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“Kneber” = Zeus

Since as far back as I can remember there has always been talk of rivalry and wars between various malware creators. The testosterone-fuelled battles may have even been encouraged by the media running stories of how such-and-such botnet “has X million nodes,” egging the botnet herders to try and outwit and outgrow each other in a competition to grab market share.

In the past, viruses and computer threats were created simply for the sake of it. Sometimes these threats would wipe your hard drive clean—just to let you know you’d been owned.

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Tidserv and MS10-015