April 12th, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua On a daily bases new type of malwares are discovered with different targets , Today a new case have been reported by SophosLab that are targeting Android smartphone devices. Here cybercriminals are using a popular game called ‘Angry Birds’ to attract users to the malicious software. The new edition claimed by attackers is ‘Angry Birds [...]
April 5th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Yesterday apple released an urgent update for the critical vulnerability in java component, this bug have been widely exploited on internet to spread BackDoor.Flashback malware that are targeting Mac operating system. Today Dr.web a security software company posted very interesting states that shows number of infected hosts in the cyberspace. What is important is that [...]
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Tags: Apple, BackDoor.Flashback, Bot and BotNet Research, Botnet, Dr.Web 
1 Comment » April 3rd, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua New malicious software has been reported by F-secure that are running on Mac OSX a virus free operating system, the discovered malware is a Trojan horse that are exploiting vulnerability in oracle java component CVE-2012-0507. Flashback code observed by F-secure (click to enlarge) This critical vulnerability have been patched by oracle on February 15th but [...]
March 29th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Malwares that are targeting Android system are often reported by most AV vendors. Today Sophos lab posted a new version that claims to be a Chinese game called “The Roar of the Pharaoh”. Well for this case the malicious software install itself in the system without asking for any permission, this will facilitate the installation [...]
March 28th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Today VX Heavens a widely known and old malware research portal goes down, the website contain a useful documentation about all kind malwares but beside all that the forum contain a virus exchange portal where users and moderators share different viruses and malwares. The share of malwares is illegal that’s why the Ukrainian police stopped [...]
March 22nd, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Malicious software have been reported by Sophos that are delivered to victims over email attachment, the email message include a statement that claim all tax refund appeal has been rejected. I think that many people who received this spam will be happy with it, but here the bad news that sender is not IRS but [...]
March 21st, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Symantec observed a new driver for Duqu which belongs to February 23, 2012, the file investigated contain a non-encrypted component that led researcher to detect the attack code. Reversing the code showed that attackers are changing and updating their technique to bypass security software’s and make the malicious program undetectable, here there is always a [...]
