We have recently seen some instances of spam email hitting our spam traps with a story about the Brazilian soccer coach Dunga, who was given a black eye by an angry fan last Sunday.

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Don’t Let This Email Give Your Computer A Black Eye

Recap If you missed Parts I and II of this blog series, you can find them here and here . I finished Part II promising to reveal the organization behind this sorry saga.

While investigating the malware and shellcode that were associated with the recent Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader, and Acrobat 'authplay.dll' Remote Code Execution Vulnerability ( BID 40586 ), we came across some interesting similarities to the malware and shellcode that were used in the Microsoft Internet Explorer 'iepeers.dll'

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A Zero-day Connection

Recap

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What’s Hogging my Bandwidth? Part 2 - Analysis

Introduction

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What’s Hogging my Bandwidth?

In previous blogs , Symantec has highlighted threats that steal user data. We recently analyzed a new sample submitted to Symantec and came across a server hosting the credentials of 44 million stolen gaming accounts.

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44 Million Stolen Gaming Credentials Uncovered

Zeus/Zbot is one of the most widely known Internet threats today. It’s been around since 2007 and has evolved over time, and is still in a constant state of being developed into a stronger, more prolific Trojan.

Our previous blog entries about W32.Qakbot gave details about how the threat works, how it spreads, and its capabilities for stealing information.

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Qakbot Steals 2GB of Confidential Data per Week

Always ever ready to pounce on any major new events, the creators of rogue antivirus software are quick to seize on the latest major news event to try and push their wares on unsuspecting users. In this case the latest big news event is the false positive relating to McAfee antivirus software.

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Malware Authors Kicking McAfee Users When they’re Down

We have discovered a threat affecting the Windows Mobile platform that dials several high-cost international phone numbers.

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Mobile Game Bundled with Malware