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Apache binaries replaced by stealth malcious ones
Malicious servers opening backdoors, performing redirects. Researchers at ESET and Sucuri have discovered a modified Apache binary that is used on hundreds of web servers to perform malicious redirects and open a backdoor to the server, while going to great lengths to hide its activity. Recently, thousands of websites – most prominently that of the…
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Dutchman arrested in Spain for DDoS attacks on Spamhaus
Suspect drove around in ‘mobile bunker’ to co-ordinate attacks. Police in Spain have arrested a 35-year-old Dutchman, believed to be responsible for the DDoS attacks on Spamhaus last month. Although the Dutch public prosecutor has only identified the suspect as ‘SK’, it is almost certain that he is Sven Olaf Kamphuis, spokesman for hosting provider…
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Cybercriminals quick to exploit emerging news
Malicious emails appear a matter of hours after news of explosions in the US. It would have come as little surprise to anyone in the security industry that within hours of this week’s tragic news emerging from the US, spammers, scammers and malware writers had already begun to exploit interest in the breaking news stories.…
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Different focus on spam needed
What happens before the filter doesn’t matter too much. It is surprisingly difficult to get accurate figures for the amount of spam that is sent globally, yet everyone agrees that the global volume of spam has come down a lot since its peak in late 2008. At the same time, despite some recent small decreases…
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VB2013 programme announced
Exciting range of topics to be covered at VB conference in Berlin this October. The VB conference selection committee have been busily assessing more than 150 proposals submitted for this year’s VB conference and have now made their final selections. The more than 30 industry experts on the selection committee were tasked with reading, assessing…
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AV-Comparatives reveals detection and protection reports
Figures released for long-term real-world tests and large-scale scanning measures. Hot on the heels of the recent report from AV-Test , the latest sets of figures from Austrian testing outfit AV-Comparatives have been released, with both their large-scale detection test, published twice a year, and the latest installment of their rolling ‘real-world’ protection measures going…
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AV-Test releases first Windows 8 test stats
Corporate and consumer products rated against Windows Defender baseline. Independent testing house AV-Test.org has released its first set of figures for solutions run on Windows 8 , covering 26 consumer and nine corporate products. At the consumer level, Microsoft ‘s Windows Defender , included as standard in Windows 8 , is treated as a baseline…
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Catch rates drop in latest VBSpam tests
Spam more of a challenge for majority of products. The results of VB’s latest spam filter test show that spam has become more difficult to filter – with 15 of the 19 products missing more spam than they did in the last test. Nine out of the 19 full solutions tested saw the percentage of…
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Spam link sends Android users to trojan proxy
Meanwhile, desktop users sent to (relatively harmless) weight-loss site. Links found in certain spam emails which redirect desktop users to a phony weight-loss website, have been found to send mobile users to a trojan proxy, according to researchers at Lookout . Clicking links in spam emails falls into the “don’t try this at home” category,…
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VB data supports Google’s claim to having reduced compromised accounts
Internet giant may indeed do something right; Yahoo! has a real problem. Internet giant Google claims that a ‘complex risk analysis’ using ‘more than 120 variables’ has reduced the number of compromised accounts on its system by 99.7% since 2011. VB ‘s data suggests that this could indeed be the case. It is usually good…
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