Ransomware – malicious files designed to lock an end-user out of their desktop while demanding lots of money in return – have been a bit of a plague this year, perhaps stealing the limelight from Ye Olde Fake AV as it attacks PCs with everything from random websites to infections targeting Skype users. Someone had […]
Recently I blogged about some exploit packs. In that post I showed a table that had ten common malware kits which I listed the vulnerabilities used, referenced by their Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures (CVE) names. They were 45 vulnerabilities in the table.From this data, this idea was taken up by Mila Parkour via her Contagio […]
Once in a while, a piece of malware will come along that grabs headlines. Rarer is malware that is talked about around the water cooler (at places other than Symantec). But the rarest of all is malware that actually makes history. It is for just such a piece of malware that we observe the one […]
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