Monthly Archives: October 2011

Outdated Operating System? This BlackHole Exploit Kit has you in its sights

October 31, 2011 – 11:50 am

By Mike Johnson Several weeks back, I was presented with a group of snapshots from an active BlackHole Exploit Kit 1.2 Control Panel. As with other toolkits I’ve seen in the wild, this one has all the makings of some real bad medicine. The authors have yet again gone to the trouble of making this toolkit incredibly easy [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, rootkit, Search engines, Trojans, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

Awake at all hours during Cyber Security Awareness Month

October 25, 2011 – 10:19 am

By Jacques Erasmus I’ve been having trouble sleeping lately, and last night I pinpointed why. October has presented me with a perfect storm of Internet security developments: I embarked on my first few weeks as chief information security officer for Webroot amidst the most significant consumer product launch the company has ever had. These activities [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Keyloggers, phishing, Phishing Trojans, social engineering, Trojans | Tags: , | Comments (1)

A look inside the SpyEye Trojan admin console

October 24, 2011 – 1:38 pm

By Michael Johnson At Webroot we’ve been researching and chronicling developments with SpyEye since we first saw it in April 2010. This nasty Trojan is the successor to the Zeus Trojan, and it became essentially the main rootkit available for sale after the author of ZeuS left the underground market and sold ZeuS sources to [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Deep Knowledge, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Non-executable malicious files and code – Thre@t Reply

October 7, 2011 – 9:36 am

By Nathan Collier .exe, PHP, HTML, and the list goes on. How many different kinds of files and code can potentially infect your PC? Webroot threat research analyst Nathan Collier explains a few of the the types of potentially dangerous files, other than the common executable (.exe) that can be found on a Windows PC [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in malware, Threat Research, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , | Comments (2)

HTC acknowledges security flaw, plans update to fix

October 5, 2011 – 1:10 pm

By Armando Orozco A couple of days ago researchers for Android Police wrote about a security vulnerability in several HTC phones. The vulnerability lies with logging tools installed by HTC. These logging tools collect personal data like user accounts, email addresses, GPS info and SMS data. Having these tools logging users data is one thing [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Android, Mobile security | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)
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