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07
Sep
2011

In their attempts to bypass e-mail filtering systems and deliver their information to users, spammers often resort to all sorts of tricks. Although really new tricks (such as distributing mp3 files with voice-generated messages) are relatively uncommon, sometimes they do come up. Kaspersky Lab analysts have recently come across a few curious samples. While masking […]

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03
Aug
2011

We’ve published a detailed analysis of Sality in a whitepaper titled, “Sality: Story of a Peer-to-Peer Viral Network.” Sality is a file infector that spreads by infecting executable files and by replicating itself across network shares. Infected hosts join a peer-to-peer network used to propagate malware on the compromised computer. Typically, those additional programs will […]

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There has been some buzz about a zero day vulnerability found in Timthumb.php that can allow for arbitrary file uploads. Although this is a platform independent issue, it is specially an issue on WordPress where a lot of theme authors choose to include scripts in themes without any extra security measures. You can read more […]

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