The decline and fall of Slammer?

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 Posted in Industry News, Kaspersky | No Comments »

Me and Slammer (Helkern) go back a long way...to 25 January 2003 to be precise. It was a baptism of fire for me in my new role as a virus ... Read more..

Adobe Fix for CVE-2011-0609

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 Posted in Industry News, Kaspersky | No Comments »

Adobe released its fix for CVE-2011-0609 this afternoon, making good on last week's advisory dealing with the latest Flash zero-day. Kaspersky Lab products detected the variants as "Trojan-Dropper.MSExcel.SWFDrop" this ... Read more..

Apple’s silent updates

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 Posted in Industry News, Kaspersky | No Comments »

Apple has released MacOS X 10.6.7 with several bugfixes and security-patches. This patch bundle also includes a silent update to Apple‘s built-in Xprotect anti-virus functionality. Xprotect With the release ... Read more..

Japan Quake Spam leads to Malware Part 3

Monday, March 21st, 2011 Posted in Industry News, Kaspersky | No Comments »

Last week, we published a blog post regarding the ongoing spam campaign using the recent earthquake in Japan to infect users. This is a follow up blog describing the exploits ... Read more..