There is some pretty interesting content in ESET’s Threat Report for July.

A week or so ago we promised you a full paper expanding on our Hodprot is a Hotshot blog. That paper is now available.

In their presentation “Cybercrime in Russia: Trends and issues” at CARO2011 — one of the best presentations of the workshop, in my unbiased opinion ;-) — Robert Lipovsky, Aleksandr Matrosov and Dmitry Volkov mentioned the Win32/Hodprot malware family, which seems to be undergoing something of a resurgence.