Regular report from Microsoft came out and this time it is devoted to the situation around botnets in Q2 2010. This report is available at Microsoft website. This report is mainly interested in covering a large audience of Microsoft customers. The report presents data on the most popular families of malicious programs that infecting new users join the ranks of zombie computers - bots.
Data loss is an unpleasant fact of our life, especially if we loss important personal papers, such as yearly projects, graduate theses, financial reports, presentations, photographs and much more that can’t be downloaded from the Internet and, as always, don’t have a backup. There are a lot of reasons why data losses occur. For example, "accidental" deletion, hardware failure, malware, etc. And, although valuable data can be recovered in many cases, you need to know how and what to do when data loss has occurred. Today we'll talk about it.
... The Trojan then sends a request to the following address:
In reply it gets a list of links from which it will download files. At the time of writing, the list was as shown below…
For every virus analyst this is a well-known situation. You have a list of a few dozen malicious programs. You download them using your favorite downloading program (I use Wget in such cases). Thus, you have downloaded files and you need to know how they are detected.
In this review we will consider recent trends in the attacks implementation on Internet banking users. We will revise the most popular forms of attacks and analyze the Trojan Banker which attacks iToken client.
Analysis of recently detected Trojan Trojan-Banker.Win32.Delf.bz suggests that the attackers apply social engineering techniques to steal confidential data and can gain an access to user’s bank account.
Being inspired by some articles at av-school.ru: "Writing a browser in C++" and "Writing a browser in C++. Part 2.", I decided to join to the authors and tell how to make own browser based on the "QtWebView" component. The WebKit engine (it was hiding under this name) is used in such browsers as Google Chrome and Safari. It is considered that exactly WebKit is the fastest open-source browser engine at the moment. In addition, this engine is cross-platform and that’s some advantage over the Microsoft's browser-based component. As you know, I try to pay as much attention to cross-platform technologies as possible.
