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The MyDoom worm. First seen in January 2004, it spread via email, opened a backdoor for hackers to gain access to your PC, and scoured your hard drive for more email addresses to forward itself onto. It became widespread in no time, which was particularly concerning for software firm SCO – whose website it targeted […]

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If you've been following the research we've been publishing (spearheaded by my Russian colleagues Aleksandr Matrosov and Eugene Rodionov) you'll be aware that the TDL rootkit family doesn’t make use of OS’s own file system. Instead, it implements its own hidden storage for the payload, configuration files and so on. The hidden storage is located at the end […]

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The Democratic Party of Hong Kong’s website was compromised and malware uploaded to the web server. Interestingly, the server was distributing malicious flash and spyware nearly identical to the compromised UK Amnesty International servers at the beginning of this month. The server is being cleaned up. The english version of the website did not include […]

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