Monthly Archives: July 2009

Trojans Replace Windows System Files

July 30, 2009 – 3:47 pm

By Andrew Brandt When the threat research analysts here at Webroot recently started seeing malware swapping out legitimate components of Windows and replacing them with malware payloads, I couldn’t help but wonder what these malware authors were thinking. After all,  cybercriminals with a lick of sense know very well that messing with system files is dangerous juju. [...]

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More Malware Trades on Tawdry Searches

July 23, 2009 – 11:51 am

By Andrew Brandt By now, you’ve most likely heard about how an ESPN reporter was victimized, and that a surreptitiously recorded video was distributed online. You may also have read that malware distributors were taking advantage of the high level of interest in this video to rapidly disseminate malware by convincing people to click links to [...]

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Oh, Hush Chicken Little – The Sky is Not Falling: Why Cloud Security is Still Safe

July 17, 2009 – 2:19 pm

By Brian Czarny This week it was impossible to escape the “big news” that Twitter got hacked. The French hacker, known as “Hacker Croll,” who made headlines back in May for a similar Twitter breach, was at it again. This time he managed to get his hands on at least 310 sensitive Twitter business documents [...]

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What Keeps IT Professionals Up at Night

July 6, 2009 – 2:09 pm

By Brian Czarny Webroot recently surveyed more than 300 email and Web security professionals about email management, compliance, archiving, encryption, spam, viruses, Web filtering and Web-based malware attacks.  Our research shows that security practices and risk perceptions have evolved over the last year – the top three security concerns are email threat protection, data security/confidentiality [...]

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AutoCAD Adware Trojans Target Techies

July 1, 2009 – 8:52 am

By Andrew Brandt Every once in a while, you hear whispers or rumors about specially-crafted, targeted malware designed to steal a specific piece of data from a particular victim. The data thieves, in these limited cases, tend to be clever, thoughtful, and methodical in both the creation and deployment of their creations. Rarely do malware [...]

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