The Twitter worm that isn't

By Roel Schouwenberg On Saturday an alert went out about a new Twitter worm. Could this have been another XSS-Worm? Upon clicking the link users would see the following: However that’s not all that happens. Covertly a connection is made to another server that will result in a malicious PDF being...

Conficker business model: Scareware and spam

The Conficker botnet has started to use its peer-to-peer communication system to update itself and download scareware fake anti-virus programs to millions of infected Windows machines, according to malware hunters tracking the threat. The latest Conficker mutant comes a week after a heavily-hyped...

The Ryan & Roel Show Episode 2

Clickjacking: Ryan and Roel tackle browser-threat hype – Tue, October 21, 2008 The cross-browser clickjacking threat, malware on new Asus EEE machines, phishing and the elections/financial crisis, the iPhone security mess, Microsoft Patch Tuesday and the exploding fraudware/rogueware problems...