Without a sample of the new worm that an Iranian official says attacked the country’s computers, it’s impossible to verify his claims, a security researcher said Monday.
Kevin Haley, the director of Symantec’s security response group, said that his te…
The kidnapped son of Kaspersky Lab’s founder has been freed and five suspects are in custody in connection with the abduction, according to a Russian media report today.
Russian law enforcement officials freed Ivan Kaspersky, the 20-year-old son of Ch…
The 20-year-old son of the antivirus company’s founder was abducted earlier this week and was being held for a reported $4.3 million ransom.
Malware writers are pinching anti-piracy technology embedded in some of the world’s most popular software to protect their own work, according to Symantec.
The antivirus company said writers of complex malware toolkits can embed measures to prevent us…
I recently wrote a white paper entitled “Dragons, Tigers, Pearls, and Yellowcakeâ€? in which I proposed four alternative scenarios for the Stuxnet worm other than the commonly held assumption that it was Israel or the U.S. targeting Iranâ??…
Recent Stuxnet malware found by Belorussian antivirus company VirusBlokAda was noteworthy for the shortcut vulnerability it exploited in all versions of Windows, due to be patched today.
But the bigger problem for users and the industry may be a remar…
A few days ago, colleagues from the Belarussian antivirus company VirusBlokAda (VBA) announced they’d come across an interesting new malicious program. They published a short analysis of the program which highlighted two innovations:1. Using lnk …
A few days ago, colleagues from the Belarussian antivirus company VirusBlokAda (VBA) announced they’d come across an interesting new malicious program. They published a short analysis of the program which highlighted two innovations:1. Using lnk …
