Posted: January 26th, 2009 | Tags: Malware, Trojan | No Comments »
Harmful program Trojan-SMS.Python.Flocker for the first time has been found out last week; for today several updates of it are detected.
It is known that many operators of a mobile communication render the subscribers service in transfer of means from one account on another by means of special commands. Such function also is used by the new trojan: after penetration on the smartphone under control of operating system Symbian OS the harmful program starts to send SMS with instructions about remittance.
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Posted: January 26th, 2009 | Tags: Malware, Trojan | No Comments »
Intego company , the developer of security software for Mac OS X, warns about occurrence of the pirated version of office package iWork ‘ 09, containing the Trojan program.
According to Intego, the pirated release of iWork ‘ 09 has been downloaded through file exchange networks at least 20 thousand times. In the course of package installation in the computer registers trojan OSX.Trojan.iServices.A, allocated with the rights of the administrator. After activation the malicious program communicates with the authors and opens a «back door» in system. It allows malefactors to carry out various destructive operations on the computer of a victim. Besides, trojan can load additional components.
Company Intego underlines that the harmful program is not capable to extend independently. Infection occurs only in the event that the owner of “Poppy” himself activates process of installation of the piracy version iWork ‘ 09.
Posted: January 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Conficker, Worm | No Comments »
According to PandaLabs laboratory about 6 % of computers worldwide are infected by worm Conficker. Infections are already detected more than in 80 countries of the world, among which most infected – Spain, the USA, Taiwan and Brazil.
According to PandaLabs the quantity of the PCs infected with worm Conficker, continues to grow. By results of laboratory PandaLabs researches, 6 % (5,77 %) computers worldwide are infected by this type of malware.
Research of two millions computers has shown that the infection which has arisen in China, has extended now in 83 countries, and in such countries as Spain, the USA, Taiwan, Brazil, and Mexico, it is especially dangerous.
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Posted: January 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Conficker, Malware, Worm | No Comments »
Computer worm Downadup, also known as Conficker and Kido, has infected at least every 16-th computer, running Windows operationg system.
According to Panda Security, six percent of Windows-computers which has been checked up by means of its anti-virus products, have appeared are infected with Downadup. It has been checked up about two millions computers from which more than 110 thousand contained Downadup. Six percent of Windows-computers infected with Downadup is a minimum.
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Posted: January 21st, 2009 | Tags: Botnet, Conficker, Malware, Worm | No Comments »
Super-botnet which is being built by the worm Conficker, has grown already at least to 3,5 million computers. Thus, this zombie-network in the sizes has surpassed all known till now botnets, including Storm, which, by some estimations, on peak of the development included from 500 thousand to one million computers.
Daily, taking for a basis of a mark of time from public sites like Google and Baidu, the program generates weight of sequences of the symbols similar to domain names. Using this set of the lines, the infected computer tries to contact the servers located on corresponding domains. In practice such domain can be only one — using the same algorithm, owners of a bot-network in advance register, lift on it a server and, thus, supervise all herd of zombies-computers.
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Posted: January 19th, 2009 | Tags: Vulnerabilities | No Comments »
Microsoft company has warned about presence of critical vulnerability in the Microsoft Word, which can lead to attacks of hackers to computers of users. Representatives of Microsoft are engaged in research of the given problem and will release official correction with regular monthly upgrade.
The software giant has confirmed vulnerability presence about which the contributor of anti-virus company Panda Izmael Briones (Ismael Briones earlier has written). According to its report, vulnerability, basically, is in “engine” of Microsoft Jet Database Engine which is used by many professional program applications, as Access and Visual Basic.
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Posted: January 16th, 2009 | Tags: Fake antivirus, Rogue | No Comments »
AntiMalwareGuard is a rogue anti-spyware application that displays numerous false positives that wont be removed unless you first purchase the software. When installed, AntiMalwareGuard will scan your computer and display variety of legitimate programs as malicious. It does this to scare you into thinking you are infected and therefore will purchase their software. Get rid of AntiMAlwareGuard!
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Posted: January 15th, 2009 | Tags: Conficker, Malware, Worm | No Comments »
For today three updatings Conficker are found out. The first cases инфицирования computers have been fixed in November, and jump of speed of distribution of the harmful program has had on the beginning of January.
Worms of the Conficker family use critical vulnerability in server services of Windows operating systems which Microsoft has eliminated in the end of the last year. Besides, infection can occur through USB-devices — for example, flesh-drives or МР3-players. Having got on the computer of a victim, Conficker loads additional malware components and allows cybercriminals to supervise the infected computer far off.
The worm is constantly updated, loading components from changing ip-addresses that complicates its blocking. Now it infects thousand computers worldwide. According to experts, founders of Conficker-worm prepare for the organisation of large-scale attack with use of the infected computers.
Posted: January 14th, 2009 | Tags: Security holes, Vulnerabilities | No Comments »
The next portion of patches for the software products was released past Tuesday by Microsoft corporation.
This time within the limits of monthly updating the company has published only one security bulletin . It contains the description of three “holes” in realisation of report Server Message Block of operating systems Windows of various versions, including Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008.
According to Microsoft classification , vulnerability is characterised critically dangerous and, hence, can be maintained by malefactors for the purpose of reception of unapproved access to the remote computer and the subsequent performance on it of any program code. For organisation of the attack it is necessary to send the package of the data generated in special way on the computer of a victim.
Together with patches Microsoft has released the updated version of Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool intended for search of the most widespread harmful programs. The patches are available for download through Microsoft Update, Windows Update, and also it is direct from a official website.
Posted: January 13th, 2009 | Tags: Malware, Security, Trojan | No Comments »
Recently, users of Mac-computers were in safety concerning harmful programs, now this situation starts to change. And not in the best direction. Recently founders of harmful codes are involved more and more with Apple computers, and experts on safety even more often declare the next dangerous program. So, the new Trojan horse working under OS X Tiger and Leopard, can steal the password, avoid definition, bring in a broad gull everything that users have typed and even to make their photo.
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