Our interim analysis of a version of the malware we detect as Java/Boonana.A or Win32/Boonana.A (depending on the particular component of this multi-binary attack) differs in some characteristics from other reports we've seen. The most dramatic difference is in the social engineering hook used in messages sent to an infected user's friends list. Other reports

Since our April ESET news has already been dominated by Facebook and Koobface an updated Facebook best practices wrapup seemed in order. Facebook Newbie? Read This First While most of us involved with this blog are old hands at implementing security, sometimes it’s hard for others to process the do’s and don’ts. Michelle Green contributed

This is really easy!!! Koobface is an anagram of Facebook!!! Now you know all you need to know about Koobface. Seriously, I can tell you that Koobface is a family of threats that spread through social networking sites, but how does that help you? There are other threats on social networking sites as well. The

 ESET Latin America has confirmed that the Koobface variants they're looking at download rogue security software and other trojans from active urls. They include: Win32/TrojanProxy.Small.NEB trojan Win32/PSW.Delf.NSE trojan Win32/Qhost.NTN trojan Win32/Agent.QWU trojan a variant of Win32/Koobface.NCI worm a variant of Win32/Koobface.NCP worm Win32/Adware.Antivirus2009.AA David Harley CISSP FBCS CITP Research Fellow & Director of Malware Intelligence

Our colleagues in ESET Latin-America have reported that a huge new malware distribution campaign is being carried out through the popular social network Facebook. In this instance, it is our old friend the Koobface worm that is being propagated. (For more about Koobface see Randy's post here, and for more about this particular iteration, see

As we've seen so many times before, cybercriminals are not ashamed to exploit horrors like the Haiti earthquake or 9/11, so it would be naive to expect them not to make use of our warmer sentiments, too. My colleague Urban Schrott at ESET Ireland has just blogged a cautionary note on that very topic.  I recently blogged

No, I'm not talking about a newly-discovered and virulent OS X upconversion of SevenDust or AutoStart 9805. Mac Virus is a site founded by Susan Lesch in the 1990s, when pre-OS X Mac-specific malware was still a serious issue - AutoStart in particular caused significant damage back then – and cross-platform macro viruses were also a major

An IT/business magazine called Information Age, apparently aimed at executives with interest and responsibilities in IT, hit my letterbox this morning. That’s an actual magazine with real paper pages: remember those? Seeing as it’s Saturday, I took it back to bed with me to look through while I had the first coffee of the day, and