The spread across the Internet of several versions of the malicious program Duqu has become a main news item in the IT Security industry. In no small part, this is due to some similarities between this new worm and last year’s infamous Stuxnet worm. What is alarming in this case however is that the ultimate objective of Duqu remains unknown. Anti-malware experts at Kaspersky Lab have carried out their analysis of the new malware, the main findings of which are as follows.
Read more →FraudSense, provider of the cloud-based anti-phishing software platform, today announced the availability of a public demo featuring its proprietary real-time anti-phishing detection algorithms.
FraudSense’s next-generation anti-phishing technology is an innovative weapon in the fight against the ever growing threat of phishing attacks as it enables FraudSense-powered applications and services to identify, target and remove forged websites the moment they become active.
Read more →NetFort a leading provider of network traffic management solutions, today warns businesses that the Morto worm is still a major threat to networks. The worm, which spreads via the Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) has the power to consume excessive network bandwidth and carry out denial of service attacks. Organisations should take action now if they are not to face serious security breaches in the future.
Read more →In their ongoing assault against botnet operators and the hosting companies that allow anonymous domain registrations which facilitate them, Kaspersky Lab, Microsoft and Kyrus Tech have successfully worked together to take out the Kelihos botnet, originally named Hlux by Kaspersky Lab. Kelihos was used for delivering billions of spam messages, stealing personal data, performing DDoS attacks and many other criminal activities, via an estimated 40,000 computers.
Microsoft has also taken legal action against 24 individuals in connection with the infrastructure behind the botnet, in a civil case that enabled the takedown of the domains being used to command and control the botnet. Microsoft’s legal action included declarations submitted to court, to which contributions were made by Kaspersky Lab, and also a direct declaration from Kyrus Tech, providing detailed information and evidence regarding the Kelihos botnet.
Read more →Over the past five years, the amount of spam being delivered to email servers around the world has increased dramatically; currently over 90 percent of emails delivered worldwide are spam emails. This means that whilst you may be able to effectively filter emails in house, it will require increasing resources, to manage and maintain.
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