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 Posted by secExtra on July 05th, 2010

Virus production from Russia is on the up again, after a temporary decline last month when Russian hosting service, PROXIEZ-NET – notoriously used by criminal gangs – was taken down in early May. This is according to analysis of internet threats in June, by managed security company, Network Box.

Russia is now responsible for 7.4 per cent of the world’s malware, and is back to being in the top four virus-producing countries, behind the US (13 per cent), Korea (10.1 per cent) and India (9.2 per cent).

This follows a similar pattern to malware production after the McColo shutdown in the …

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 Posted by secExtra on July 04th, 2010

News has broke in the last few days of an alarming bug within the Windows XP support system. Apparently 10000 machines have so far been attacked leaving a  variety of trojans, spam tools and viruses on compromised machines.

Read more at the BBC News website or visit Microsoft for an automatic tool to disable the vulnerable part of the XP help and support center.

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 Posted by SecExtra on May 30th, 2010

Google has recently warned about the dangers of some of the anti-virus software out there that may actually load malicious codes onto your personal computer. This is a growing threat and it is estimated that around 15% of the anti-virus software out there could possibly malicious. This is a study that was conducted by Google over a 13 month period.

Many of the scams that are out there convince people that there is a danger on their computer and then they automatically download the prescribed remedy which may actually contain spyware. You may want to be suspicious of any of the …

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 Posted by SecExtra on May 24th, 2010

The Storm Worm is back and while many people think that this worm was nearly wiped out about two years ago, it is in fact back and researchers are looking for the code to combat this troublesome spamming botnet.

The Strom Worm is a new botnet using the original Storm Worm code. Researchers are not sure if the same botnet gang is responsible for the new worm, but it is suspected they may have a part in this. The last storm worm was a P2P infection, but this new worm seems to be HTTP based and this is one of the …

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 Posted by SecExtra on May 15th, 2010

Engate Technology Corporation, leaders in advanced reputation network profiling technology and proactive botnet, phish, virus and email security solutions, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has approved the issuance of two new patents which cover methods for monitoring the SMTP/TCP/IP conversation between a sending message transfer agent and a receiving message transfer agent to determine the legitimacy of a message.

The two additional patents strengthen Engate’s intellectual property portfolio and provide the company with ownership of key innovations that address critical email security needs of enterprises, service providers and technology OEMs.

The two issued U.S. patents build on Engate’s …