High spam catch rates continue in latest spam filter test

US presidential candidates regularly see their emails blocked by spam filters.

Flooder:PHP/Vadim.A

Flooder:PHP/Madscan.A

Scanner that finds UDP broadcast ip addresses.

Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2015. Evolution of cyber threats in the corporate sector

The data collected from Kaspersky Lab products shows that the tools used to attack businesses differ from those used against home users.

Generic:PHP/Db.Dumper.Pawet.A

Stepping out of the dark: Hashcat went OpenSource

While passwords are still an essential topic in IT-Security, the recovery and cracking of those is as well.

Arabian tales by ‘Nigerians’

The war in Syria, which began several years ago, has recently become one of the most widely reported events in the media.

Sofacy APT hits high profile targets with updated toolset

Sofacy (also known as "Fancy Bear", "Sednit", "STRONTIUM" and "APT28") is an advanced threat group that has been active since around 2008, targeting…

MMD-0045-2015 - KDefend: a new ELF threat with a disclaimer

Background It's been a while not writing new analysis in our blog & this timing is just perfect.

Throwback Thursday: A View from the Lab

This Throwback Thursday, VB heads back to 1997 with 'A View from the Lab'.

Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2015. Top security stories

The end of the year is traditionally a time for reflection – for taking stock of our lives before considering what lies ahead.

Threat Radar Report, October 2015

Paper: Optimizing ssDeep for use at scale

Brian Wallace presents tool to optimize ssDeep comparisons. Malware rarely comes as a single file, and to avoid having to analyse each sample in a…

Avira Videos: Avira System Speedup

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Wake up! You’ve been p0wned

Be careful when selecting apps and when it comes to your much-loved devices.

MMD-0044-2015 - Source code disclosure of bunch of SkiDDoS ELF malware

This sharing has been closed due to time limit (60days) - Thank you MalwareMustDie,NPO is a white-hat non-profit security research workgroup launched…

Throwback Thursday: Legal attempts to reduce spam. A UK perspective

This Throwback Thursday, we turn the clock back to November 2003, when spam was such a hot topic that VB decided to launch a dedicated 'VB Spam…

Russian financial cybercrime: how it works

The Russian-language cybercrime market is known all over the world.

VirusTotal += Mac OS X execution

We previously announced sandbox execution of Windows PE files in 2012, and Android in 2013.

Malware detected in Martel’s cameras used by police department

iPower Technologies, a U.S security company and network integrator, has discovered a copies of Conficker malware in the Martel Frontline Camera with…

Shell:PHP/Rootshell.A

Researchers find new POS malwares

Researchers have now discovered two new and different strains of point of sale (POS) malware including one that has gone largely undetected for the…

Spam:PHP/Mailer.Darkmailer.A

Spam script "DarkMailer"

Paper: 3ROS exploit framework kit — one more for the infection road

Aditya K. Sood and Rohit Bansal highlight a different side of an exploit kit.

Throwback Thursday: What DDoS it all Mean?

This Throwback Thursday, we turn the clock back to March 2000, when DDoS attacks were a newly emerging menace.

Phishing:PHP/Hotmail.A

Phishing pages for Hotmail and Windows Live Mail

Phishing:PHP/Gmail.A

The Internet of Bad Things, Observed

In his VB2015 keynote address, Ross Anderson described attacks against EMV cards.

Throwback Thursday: Inside Sony's rootkit

This Throwback Thursday, we turn the clock back ten years, when the discovery of a rootkit ignited a firestorm of criticism for Sony.

Spam:PHP/Mailer.Allucard.A

Shell:PHP/Teamcoder.A

"T E A M C O D E R" shell

Full house in VB's latest spam filter test

All participating full solutions earn VBSpam certification, while little delay is observed in spam filters.

Avira Videos: Safe Inside the Browser

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Paper: Shifu — the rise of a self-destructive banking trojan

Thorough analysis of this new kid on the malware block. Times are changing rapidly for banking trojans.

Shell:PHP/Shaje3.A

Generic:PHP/Defacement.Albanian.A

Defacement scripts by Albanian Hacker