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W32.Downadup Infection Statistics
Security Intel Analysis Team @ 8:39 PM 01-06-2009The W32.Downadup.A worm was the first worm discovered in the wild that was suc...[More ...]
2008—Ending With a Bang
Security Intel Analysis Team @ 12:07 AM 12-31-2008This has been an interesting year for high-profile vulnerabilities and security research. In 2008, awareness has been raised about a number of high impact, remote code-execution vulnerabilities aff...[More ...]
Merry Christmas from Arnold Schwarzenegger! (?)
Liam O Murchu @ 12:06 PM 12-29-2008While investigating the worm W32.Waledac recently, we got a shock (and a few laughs) from what popped up on ours screens (yes, unfortunately this is what passes for kicks in the virus lab during th...[More ...]
Phishing Attacks Utilizing Port Numbers
Sai Nayaran Nambiar @ 9:00 PM 12-23-2008There are varying types of technologies used by online attackers these days. There are old tricks and of course new ones, but it is the newer ones that make it even more difficult to handle the dil...[More ...]
An Early Holiday Gift—The Return of Spam
Dylan Morss @ 12:26 AM 12-20-2008After the shutdown of McColo, which was aiding the distribution of about half of all spam on the internet globally, spam volumes dropped. However, since mid-November, spam volumes have been slowly ...[More ...]
Missing Email Headers? Find Them in the Body.
Mayur Kulkarni @ 3:37 PM 12-18-2008Spammers always try to come up with new tricks to bypass antispam filters. This time, they have shown an ability to partly (or sometimes completely) hide essential headers, ruling filters on header...[More ...]
A Caution During the Season of Giving
Mayur Kulkarni @ 3:31 PM 12-18-2008Like so many forms of donations today, contributions to cancer research and treatment can be made online. Unfortunately, any online business or charity can be prone to phishing attacks against unsuspe...[More ...]
Rise of IE Zero-Day Through SQL Injection
Peter Coogan @ 7:08 PM 12-15-2008Since our blog Yes, There’s a Zero-Day Exploit for Internet Explorer Out There[More ...]
Just a Reminder
Steve Trilling @ 12:47 AM 12-13-2008You may have seen an article in the New York Times on December 6, 2008, by John Markoff, entitled "[More ...]
Protecting Zero-Day
Security Intel Analysis Team @ 12:02 AM 12-13-2008Hello, this is Anthony from the Symantec Intelligence Analysis Team. Earlier this week we had the opportunity to analyze an interesting shellcode that is associated with the initial malicious exploit ...[More ...]
