The new database of startup programs has been published. Each entry in the database is classified according to security risk. (Malware, Suspicious, Infected, Trusted, etc.)
The United States and Lithuania have signed a bilateral agreement which will facilitate prosecution of financial criminals, computer hackers and extremists.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Vigaudas Ushatskas and US state secretary Hillari Clinton have exchanged reports of ratification documents on contracts between the USA and EU about mutual legal aid and an extradition. It is expected that other 26 European Union countries will shortly follow the example of Lithuania.
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Cyber-criminals, using the stolen data, place comments on Digg.com with links to video of celebrities. At viewing attempt the free advertising product with the subsequent infection of the computer and the offer of paid “treatment” is loaded.
Experts of anti-virus laboratory PandaLabs have faced the next example of use of services Web 2.0 for distribution of malware: a wide-popular public news resource Digg.com (www.digg.com) has been used by cyber-criminals for distribution of a free advertising product with the information on a video game. Criminals left comments on pages with news at which there were references to video with known people. Examples of such comments include following phrases:
Christian Bale freak out dubbed with video!
Jessica Simpson Hotel Sex Tape Megan Fox naked
NEW SEX TAPE
Four administratos of the famous torrent tracker The Pirate Bay will appear on February, 16th before the
Swedish court in Stockholm, writes Cnet News. Charge considers that they helped millions Internet users to illegally download films, music and computer games. Defendant, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi and to Carl Lundstrom, threatens till two years of prison and the penalty in 1,2 million crones. A day before court representatives The Pirate Bay have held press conference, writes Wired. They have declared that are completely innocent.
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Experts from PandaLabs predict further increase of amount of malware programs.
From January till August 2008 Panda Security laboratory has found out the same quantity of new kinds of malware that for previous seventeen years together taken. In 2009 this tendency, according to experts, will remain or even progress.
In forthcoming year dominating types of harmful programs, according to PandaLabs forecast, will become bank trojans and fake antiviruses. Cybercriminals will rely even more often on social networks and quite legal resources cracked through vulnerability in server platforms. Besides, experts mark, next year the technics of packing of a harmful code by means of special custom-made tools for the purpose of difficulty of its detection becomes especially popular.
Panda Security Laboratory also predicts substantial growth of quantity of the harmful software aimed at platforms of increasing popularity, such as Mac OS X, Linux or iPhone. Besides, in the conditions of financial crisis it is necessary to expect growth of popularity of false offers on the work which purpose consists in attraction of monetary actives.
For 2009 experts predict revival of classical harmful codes, such as viruses. These programs will be used not to violate correct work of systems or block access to files, but for the purpose of masking of trojans, used for theft of the bank information.
Sophos company has published the total report with results of the analysis of a situation with safety in the Internet in 2008.
Today, most of sites with malicious software — 37 % — are hosted on the American servers. The second place in the rating is China with 27,7 % of potentially dangerous web pages. Russia takes 9,1 % from total of sites with malware and closes a three of the antileaders.
Further in decreasing order of number of harmful resources follow: Germany (2,3 %), South Korea (2,1 %), Ukraine (1,8 %), Great Britain (1,7 %), Turkey (1,5 %), the Czech Republic (1,3 %) and Thailand (1,2 %). The least dangerous is Singapore — 0,3 %.
Sophos company also notices that in leaving year the United States were the leader in amount of distributed spam. Today through computers located in the USA 17,5 % of all spams-letters are dispatched. Some reduction of volumes of a spam has been noted in the end of autumn in connection with closing of American hosting-provider McColo on which resources the command centres of several of the largest botnets worked. According to the research, frauds more and more often attack users of social networks, and the quantity of letters with harmful investments for a year has grown five times. At the same time in 2008 demountable carriers became one of the basic tools of distribution of malicious programs.
