Pierre-Marc tells me that he has received two malware samples that grabbed his attention due to their resemblance to Storm/Waledac.

The December ThreatSense report, being the last report of the year, is a little bigger than usual, and takes a longer view.

The Lookout Mobile Security company is reporting a new trojan horse program that runs on Android based phones. The novel thing about this trojan is that it has enough functionality to allow the criminals to assemble an Android based botnet. This really should come as no surprise. The Android is not a phone with web

This short video blog explains a bit about typo squatting. For our readers who are not native English speakers, typo means typographical error, or in plain English, it means you typed the wrong letters in. Some websites buy domains with similar names so that you will still get where you want to go if you

It is generally well-understood that antimalware programs—the software which detects computer viruses, worms, trojan horses and other threats to your system—work by scanning files using signatures they already have. A signature could be as simple as a string[i] (like using the "find" command in your word processor to locate a particular piece of text) or as

This short video blog explains what “Adult Traffic Trading” is. This series of Video Blogs is in response to a study done about adult content web sites. This is a really, really short video, but the answer is simple enough to answer the question that it doesn’t need to be a long video. Randy Abrams

This isn’t exactly a security post, although when things go wrong on electronic devices viruses almost always are suspected and blamed. Well, the truth is that sometimes it is a hardware problem. Many Kindle users complained of crashes. The Kindle has not been found to have exploitable vulnerabilities (yet) and isn’t even reported to have

Here in the Cyber Threat Analysis Center we’re starting to add video blogs. If the threat information I share doesn’t scare you, maybe my picture will :) This short video blog is about drive-by downloads. This is aimed at helping people who are not technical to understand the nature of the threat. Drive-by downloads are

…This paper, presented at the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (2010) … discusses alternative approaches to understanding botnet mechanisms, using “in the lab” experiments involving at-scale emulated botnets…

Version 1.3 of the Stuxnet Analysis white paper is now available on the white papers page at http://www.eset.com/documentation/white-papers.