Watching the evolution of Malware is a lot like watching Darwinian evolution in fast motion. ZeuS, the pinnacle of malware distro’s, has taken a necessary evolutionary step to increase it’s ability to procreate (to continue the Darwinian reference.) While the initial vectors haven’t changed, there is a new method to continue and upgrade the bot. [...]
19
Aug
Spamhaus lowers the boom…
Spam counts going up? Users seeing less items in the junk-mail box? A noticeable decrease in the number of e-mail borne virus infections? If you’re using Spamhaus, you’ve probably noticed all these things and more lately. The recent inclusion of entire class b addresses on the lasso list has had a significant impact on spam [...]
05
Jul
The return of Octoshape
RiskAnalytics customers may have noticed an uptick in the detections of Octoshape starting around 1:00 this afternoon. It took a single page view to understand this sudden rise, the reading of the Casey Anthony verdict. We’ll leave the social commentary to other outlets, but this event served as a reminder to our clients that less [...]
09
Jun
Follow up: SMB’s acquire the bullseye
On May 27th, a magistrate from the US District court in Maine ruled that a bank had no liability for the loss of over $500,000.00 from a construction companies bank account. The construction company was compromised by external malware, which was used to steal banking credentials and the answers to security challenge questions. The bank [...]
24
May
Seriously limiting your risk
Avoid, mitigate, accept, transfer and (sometimes) deny. It’s the traditional rejoinder to dealing with risk for most organizations. In the real world, it’s usually the best of nothing but bad choices. Business needs combine with user expectations to create a literal puzzle of risk choices. We allow social networks because they are important to today’s [...]
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