New Research: IT Pros Sound Off On 2010 Security Concerns

February 17, 2010 – 12:31 pm

Research from the enterprise security experts at Webroot With the explosion of social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook in 2009, it’s no surprise cybercriminals have set their sights on these Web sites for new victims. Facebook now has over 400 million active users and Twitter has over six million — a sizeable pool of potential targets. [...]

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‘Koobfox’ variant digs for Firefox cookies

September 3, 2009 – 3:34 pm

By Andrew Brandt A new variant of the Koobface worm started striking out this week, with a twist: Where the older Koobface would steal and use the cookies saved by Internet Explorer which store social network logins in order to spread its infectious messages in the victim’s name, this new variant is pulling down a [...]

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Koobface: Not Just for Facebook, Anymore

August 14, 2009 – 11:54 am

By Andrew Brandt The latest generation of Koobface targets its particularly effective brand of social engineering at more social networks than ever. As the worm has evolved, we’ve seen it grow to encompass a pantheon of services, targeting more than just the widely publicized Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, but a host of other Web sites [...]

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April 2009 wrapup: Thumbdrives under threat

May 1, 2009 – 1:00 pm

By Andrew Brandt We’ve just tallied the top 10 threats Webroot’s consumer products detected during the month of April, and some interesting trends appear to be shaping up. Conficker aside, the first quarter of 2009 seemed to be dominated by worms that spread not only over a network, but to virtually anything you can plug into a USB port [...]

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Inane Shenanigans with Worm-Shiv

April 8, 2009 – 3:39 pm

By Andrew Brandt It’s been a long time since I’ve worked on a malware file as singularly obnoxious as Worm-Shiv, a new worm we defined a few weeks ago. There isn’t anything especially technically avant-garde or advanced about the worm, nor was it especially difficult to detect or remove. It just exhibits behavior that, to [...]

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Someone Confick-rolled the Internet

April 1, 2009 – 9:01 am

By Andrew Brandt Well, the big Conficker.c launch day is upon us and…nothing. So far, anyway. Someone should start selling “I blogged about Conficker and all I got was this lousy T-shirt” shirts. Cafepress, are you listening? We’ve been keeping to the back of the room about Conficker, not joining the rising hysteria chorus. It’s not that [...]

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