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There’s another wave of malware-bearing spam. This time, the spam claims that “new clauses” have been added to the legislation regulating your online activities. Figure 1. Spam sample Attached in the spam email is the zip file Legislation.zip, which contains Legislation.doc{several whitespace characters}.exe. Yes, this is the age-old double-extension trick which uses a LOT of whitespace to [...]

Perhaps everybody concerned about online security has heard of clickjacking. This cyber-buzzword had been disclosed in the last week of September, and it remains hot until now. Experts are quite forceful in harping about how scary this new form of cyber-jacking is, and the lot of us perhaps are still lost — if not confused [...]

First detected in 2007, the WORM_VOTERAI family, which turned up during the presidential election season in Kenya that year, seems to be making a comeback in time for the US elections this year via WORM_VOTERAI.N. This worm, notable for dropping the following incomplete image file of Raila Odinga, has registered several infection counts in North [...]

This month’s Patch Tuesday was prematurely ushered in by a spam attack purporting to carry MS Updates. Don’t be fooled, though, we have found the said spam to carry a backdoor (BKDR_HAXDOOR.MX), and has nothing to do with Microsoft’s official release. The October 2008 MS Patch Tuesday addresses 20 vulnerabilities, with 4 bulletins marked as critical, [...]

TROJ_FAKEALER.IO

WORM_SOHANAD.DR

TROJ_DLOADER.VIN

TROJ_GAMET.BH

PE_PATCHED.EC

TROJ_TIBS.CLZ

TROJ_SMALL.KAS

WORM_AUTORUN.BNH

TROJ_AGENT.GZT