Gumblar Botnet Shifts Tactics

The criminals behind the Gumblar botnet and malware campaign have been adapting their techniques, as attackers are wont to do, in order not only to evade detection but to prevent researchers from downloading and analyzing new versions of the malware. A new analysis of the recent activity by Gumbl...

LifeLock Settles with FTC for $11 Million

LifeLock, an Arizona company promising customers protection from identity theft, has agreed to pay $12 million to settle charges that the company overstated its benefits and used “scare tactics” to gain subscribers. Read the full article. Computerworld...

A Look Deep Inside the Scareware Epidemic

Kaspersky Lab malware analyst Vyacheslav Zakorzhevsky has written an in-depth article describing the scareware fake anti-virus epidemic. The article touches on the common distribution techniques, the tricks used to scare users into paying fraudsters for a removal tool and the way code generators...

Google Reader Used in Koobface Attack

The attackers behind the insidious Koobface worm have taken to using Google Reader accounts that they control to spread the worm through shared Reader items. The infection method–which has been used before by Facebook worms–is another indication of the resilience and changing tactics the malware...

FBI Reports Malware on Rise in Electronic Funds Fraud

The FBI reports it has seen a rise of malware over the past few months targeting small and medium businesses and municipal government entities and school districts. Once a malicious attachment or link is opened, keylogging tactics obtain bank account info where criminals then initiate wire...

The Evolution of Rogue Anti-Virus

We often write about the fact that cybercriminals constantly change their tactics to take account of developments in the security and software industries. And I just came across a great example of this: it shows how the people behind rogue antivirus solutions adapt their “products” to exploit...

Apache Shows How to Handle a Network Compromise

The Apache Software Foundation last week was the victim of a serious network attack in which a number of its Web servers and other machines were compromised by attackers who were able to gain root privileges and jump from machine to machine. The incident was embarrassing and a serious problem for...

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SuSe Linux LibTIFF package vulnerable to buffer overflow

Overview The SuSe Linux version of LibTIFF is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description SuSe LibTIFF is a library used to encode and decode images in Tag Image File Format TIFF format on SuSE systems. A lack of input validation in the...