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  • Throwback Thursday: We’re all doomed

    When a daily sports paper compares a national soccer crisis with the spread of an Internet worm, you know that the worm has had an enormous impact on everyday life. This was the case with W32/Mydoom when it first made an appearance in early 2004. Incredibly, despite its advanced years, Mydoom is still showing up…

  • Throwback Thursday: We’re all doomed

    When a daily sports paper compares a national soccer crisis with the spread of an Internet worm, you know that the worm has had an enormous impact on everyday life. This was the case with W32/Mydoom when it first made an appearance in early 2004. Incredibly, despite its advanced years, Mydoom is still showing up…

  • VB2018 paper: Office bugs on the rise

    A large portion of today’s malware infections use malicious Office documents as a first-stage payload. Typically, the user is tricked into enabling macros or disabling some security protection, after which the next-stage payload is downloaded and executed. However, a different kind of Office malware targets outdated versions of Microsoft Office , which continue to be…

  • VB2018 paper: Office bugs on the rise

    A large portion of today’s malware infections use malicious Office documents as a first-stage payload. Typically, the user is tricked into enabling macros or disabling some security protection, after which the next-stage payload is downloaded and executed. However, a different kind of Office malware targets outdated versions of Microsoft Office , which continue to be…

  • Gábor Szappanos wins fourth Péter Szőr Award

    Every year, during the Virus Bulletin Conference gala dinner, we celebrate the life and works of Péter Szőr, the brilliant security researcher who passed away so sadly in 2013. We do so by recognizing a great piece of technical security research with the Péter Szőr Award. This year, we received many nominations, which we narrowed down…

  • Gábor Szappanos wins fourth Péter Szőr Award

    Every year, during the Virus Bulletin Conference gala dinner, we celebrate the life and works of Péter Szőr, the brilliant security researcher who passed away so sadly in 2013. We do so by recognizing a great piece of technical security research with the Péter Szőr Award. This year, we received many nominations, which we narrowed down…

  • Is CVE-2017-0199 the new CVE-2012-0158?

    There are two good reasons not to be concerned about CVE-2012-0158 , an RTF handling vulnerability in Microsoft Office . First, the vulnerability was patched more than five years ago, so if you follow good security practices and patch regularly, you won’t have to worry about it. Secondly, if you are following those good security practices,…

  • Is CVE-2017-0199 the new CVE-2012-0158?

    There are two good reasons not to be concerned about CVE-2012-0158 , an RTF handling vulnerability in Microsoft Office . First, the vulnerability was patched more than five years ago, so if you follow good security practices and patch regularly, you won’t have to worry about it. Secondly, if you are following those good security practices,…

  • Paper: New Keylogger on the Block

    Keyloggers have long been a popular tool for cybercriminals, something made worse by the fact that many of them are sold commercially. Today, we publish a paper ( here as a PDF) by Sophos researcher Gabor Szappanos, in which he studies the ‘KeyBase’ keylogger. Though the product has officially been discontinued, allegedly because of abuse…

  • Paper: New Keylogger on the Block

    Keyloggers have long been a popular tool for cybercriminals, something made worse by the fact that many of them are sold commercially. Today, we publish a paper ( here as a PDF) by Sophos researcher Gabor Szappanos, in which he studies the ‘KeyBase’ keylogger. Though the product has officially been discontinued, allegedly because of abuse…