Following our blog, 0-Day attack on IE6: JS.Sykipot doesn’t spare retired software , covering the recent IE 0-day , we thought it might be interesting to look at an attack in the wild using this vulnerabili

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Backdoor.Sykipot At Work

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

Recently, Symantec received some malicious files which appeared to be signed by “Adobe Systems Incorporated”. On closer inspection, however, it was seen that the signature was just a ruse used by the malware author to give an air of legitimacy to the files.

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Viruses and Digital Signatures

Symantec has been observing several spam and phishing attacks regarding the recent Valentine’s Day.

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Phishing Scam Linked to Valentine’s Day Movie

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

Symantec has recently observed phishing scams targeting Apple iPhones in order to gain serial numbers, IMEI, model, and capacity, etc. What is an IMEI

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Apple iPhone Warranty Scam

This is a follow-up to a previous article on Tidserv and MS10-015 .

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Tidserv and BSoD

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.

The Chinese New Year is known to be the most important holiday of the year in Chinese society. The Chinese lunar calendar determines the Chinese New Year date, and this year the day falls on February 14, which of course is the same day as Valentine’s Day! Traditionally, Chinese people start cleaning up their homes prior to the Chinese New Year’s eve.

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Gong Xi Fa Cai! Wishing you a Happy Chinese New Year and Great Year of the Tiger

The use of search engines to deliver malware is well known.

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“Google Sponsored Links” Websites Blacklisted by Google