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 [...]
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Spammers Use IRS to Distribute Malware
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 [...]
Symantec: Duqu Still Active with New Update
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 [...]
7 Must-Have Features in Internet Monitoring Software
March 20th, 2012
Mourad Ben Lakhoua If you are considering Internet monitoring software, you may be overwhelmed by all the buzzwords, bullet points, and marketing gloss that you find on vendor websites. What’s really important and a must is what you need to know now. I’ve deployed Internet monitoring software for countless clients, and for my employers’ networks in my four [...]
Trend Micro Alerts of Fake Google Play
March 16th, 2012
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Android system continue to be targeted by cybercriminals, after changing the name of android market to Google Play as source for the smartphone applications, another malicious campaign have been reported by TrendMicro which uses the domain name but with a small modification to convince victim that it’s a legitimate one. The fake domain is pointing [...]
Spambots are here to stay, so learn from it
March 12th, 2012
Mourad Ben Lakhoua By Michelle Drolet The headline reads, “FBI warns of new malware targeting bank accounts.” The headline could just as well say, “More new victims born from opening emails.” From the simple act of opening an email and clicking on an attachment, the victim’s username and password to their bank accounts are stolen by a process [...]
‘Super Tuesday’ Trick Used by Malicious Scammers
March 8th, 2012
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Sophos security Software Company have reported a new malware that comes to target users interested in next US election, the executable file is called Super_Tuesday_2012_voting_information.exe , and this is actually a malicious software that have nothing to do with the US day of election. By executing the file victim will connect to a remote web [...]




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