Anti-Malware

Due to Twitter’s announcement regarding outbound links, third party developers were forced to notify their users of how the changes would effect their own software. Naturally, cyber criminals wasted no time trying to exploit this activity sending out their own tweets with the exact same content onling their URLs contained links to malacious software diguised [...]

Designed to aid users in preventing the spread of malware online, Threat Labs is a new portal service that will aggregate quantitive web threat detection data collected by AVG with data collected from the firms LinkScanner technology. Rather than a replacement of existing software, Threat Labs will compliment existing software by giving users the opportunity [...]

Twitter has announced it will be rolling out it’s URL wrapping service, first outlined back in Jun. The new service, called t.co will not used as a URL shortening service rather it will wrap all outbound links with a new t.co simplified link. According to Twitter, the new links will be easier to read with [...]

BBC News has shown just how easy it can be to create and malicious application to run on a smartphone. The BBC spent a few weeks putting together a crude game for a smartphone that secretly spied on the owner of the phone. Using the standard Software Developer Kits SDKs used by all application developers, [...]

The Microsoft Malware Protection Center Threat Research & Response Blog reports findings of a new variant in the Win32/Unruy family of trojan downloaders exploiting a known Java vulnerability. According to Microsoft: Infection can occur when a user visits a webpage that hosts a malicious Java applet. If the user’s browser runs a vulnerable version of [...]

Wayne Huang, a security expert and co-founder of security firm Armorize has revealed that around 5 million parked websites have been delivering malware via a rouge widget, mainly targeting users coming from Hong Kong and Taiwan. The widget, used to provide small business tips to users visiting the parked websites was apparently targeting only Internet [...]

Melbourne and Amsterdam, 13 August 2010 – It should go without saying that the best way to deal with malware is, of course, not to get infected in the first place. Lloyd Borrett, Security Evangelist for AVG (AU/NZ) says, “Being aware of what products are being targeted by the bad guys may help you as [...]

According the the McAfee Quartlerly Threats Report, released Yesterday, Malware has reseached it’s highest levels ever making the first 6 months of 2010 the most active peroid of malware production on record. Whilst malware continues to soar, notably spam leveled out with only 2.5% growth on the same time last year. Threats on portable devices [...]

Trend Micro reports that August is becoming one of Mircosoft’s busiest months terms of security fixes. Last week we saw Microsoft issue updates for the LNK Vulnerability during an out-of-cycle patch and this months Patch Tuesday saw a record number of bullentins released – 14 in total. Of the 14 vulnerabilities issued, 8 have been [...]

Researchers at Trend Micro have announced the discovery of the first known Android Trojan running on Google’s Android OS smartphones. According the Trend Micro, the malware is disguised as a Windows Media Player icon attempts to send text messages via the Short Message Service Center (SMSC). Similair to the Symbian malware that posed as a [...]