BitDefender weekly review – Malware authors keep being ingenious
Rather unusual activity has been analyzed this week. We have a worm that uses window titles to receive commands and a family which has not been seen spreading for a very long time: Trojan.Dialer
BitDefender weekly review – Is the Delphi virus harmfull?
The answer is simple: no. No matter how intuitive (and rather successful) it's spreading method is, this virus does no harm to any of the systems it comes in contact with, besides the actual file infection ne [...]
BitDefender weekly review – IRCBots and file infectors
This week a pretty simple but recyclable IRCBot caught out attention. Besides the fact that it allows remote control of the infected machine by the attacker, the only noteworthy fact about it is that it comes [...]
BitDefender weekly review – The fight continues, the opponents are unworthy
Nothing fancy this week. We got a Visual Basic worm (again) running completely hidden under the Windows Scripting Host, a removable drives infecting Trojan and an IRC controlled Trojan written in Delphi. Most [...]
BitDefender weekly review – The Cutwail botnet. A little insight
This week we stumbled across a new version of the Cutwail botnet (also known as Pandex or Pushdo). We've takes the liberty to analyze its main components and see what makes it tick, because it's the second la [...]
The Spam Omelette #29 – New Spam Techniques Ramping Up
Welcome to the Spam Omelette, BitDefender’s weekly newsletter on the latest spam trends and techniques. In order to accurately draw the spam chart, we analyze about 7 million spam messages. In case you missed [...]
BitDefender weekly review – MSN spreading batch worm
It is a known fact that some e-threats use instant messaging applications to spread. Did you ever wonder how it's done? Well this week, we have a worm that uses MSN Messenger. The amazing part about it howeve [...]
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