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- chetwisniewski: #Comcast users being targeted with Constant Guard phishing emails http://t.co/jx52bYneabout 2 hours ago
- gcluley: Man behind Bredolab botnet gets 4 seconds jail for every single PC he infected (but, 30 million PCs..) http://t.co/Sr9Ea3EYabout 2 hours ago
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Sophos talks viruses at MIT
Dear Diary, Yesterday I lectured at MIT. (How cool is that?) Two weeks ago, at the RSA 2009 conference in San Francisco, I had the great honour of meeting Prof. Ron Rivest (he's the 'R' in RSA), who sat in Read more…
Cyberwarfare unit operating out of North Korea?
Intelligence services in Seoul are claiming that North Korea has set up a specialist cyberwarfare brigade, designed to use technology usually used by hackers to steal information from enemy countries and disrupt rival military networks in South Korea and the Read more…
Hackers demand $10 million ransom after wiping patient data
According to media reports, hackers broke into a Virginia government website, stealing the details of almost 8.3 million patients, and threatening to auction them to the highest bidder if a $10 million ransom isn't paid. The hackers' ransom note was Read more…
Gartner publishes endpoint protection Magic Quadrant
Analyst firm Gartner has published its latest Magic Quadrant, plotting where it believes different security companies to be when it comes to protecting endpoints on a kind-of battenberg cake. When they say 'endpoint' they are referring to what much of Read more…
Spam from sexy girls with boy's names
I've written before on the Clu-blog after mysterious Eastern European women contacting me out of the blue, and very keen to make my acquaintance. Typically they're interested in having a relationship, and have kindly attached a picture of themselves. I Read more…
Twitter Spam
Trying desperately hard to be hip and cool, I joined twitter recently to check out all the hype. I am kind of disappointed. So far, I have one friend to follow and one friend that follows me. This morning, my Read more…
Tored - a lame email worm for Mac OS X
A few days ago our labs analysed a new piece of Apple Mac malware, OSX/Tored-A. Mac malware is still a lot less commonly encountered than Windows malware - although we are seeing a steady increase in reports of threats targeting Read more…
Real babes spam on Twitter
Coming back to my computer after a long holiday weekend, I find I have a fair few new followers on Twitter. Thanks to everyone who is following me on the increasingly popular micro-blogging site. Well, let me rephrase that. Thanks Read more…
A Postcard from Pete at CARO
Pete (AU lab) would prefer to imbibe without inconvenience so has requested the following blog to be posted on his behalf: "Over the past two days several SophosLabs analysts have attended the 3rd International CARO Workshop in Budapest where the Read more…
Memories of the Love Bug worm
Do you remember when the Love Bug worm spread around the world?
I remember pretty clearly Thursday, May 4th 2000.
Looking for work? Some jobs ARE too good to be true.
In this time of increasing unemployment, it appears the money fraud scammers have found a new target demographic. Traditionally, "money mule" scams have involved beleaguered survivors of fallen third world political regimes claiming to have money they want your help Read more…
Viral Video Now Just Viral
...well actually it's a trojan, but it's still malicious! For those who had the misfortune of watching the viral video 2 Girls 1 Cup (SFW Wikipedia link) that spread across the internet like wildfire a couple years ago, people trying Read more…
Fake AV and swine flu
It was inevitable. Rogue security software taking advantage of concerns around Swine flu, sorry, H1N1 influenza A, to infect victims. Now is not the best time to be using a search engine to find information on the pandemic (at least Read more…
The right controls in the right place
The American media has been afire this week about some important data leakage events that appear to have occurred within the Defense Department and it contractors in the February time frame. Blueprints and other secret information on the Joint Strike Read more…
Microsoft improves AutoPlay to combat USB malware
Here's some good news. Microsoft has revealed on one of its blogs that the next version of Windows will change the way in which the operating system handles USB flash drives to fight the growing problem of AutoRun malware. Malware Read more…
Nugache botnet mastermind escapes jail
Jason Michael Milmont, the 20-year-old hacker who admitted creating the Nugache worm which created a sophisticated botnet which used peer-to-peer technology, has escaped a prison sentence after co-operating with the authorities. Milmont from Cheyenne, Wyoming, was sentenced earlier this week Read more…
Twitter security breach exposes accounts to hackers
A French hacker is claiming that he broke into Twitter's internal administration system, giving him access to the accounts of millions of Twitter users including those of Barack Obama, Britney Spears, Ashton Kutcher and Lily Allen. The claim appears to Read more…
Conficker.E - all grown up...
Having done some more digging into the recent Conficker update, dubbed "Conficker.E", I have been able to flesh out a number of the key points from our initial analysis when the update first came out. In particular, the dropped DLL Read more…
