We’re preparing the public beta of yet another Bitdefender Labs project – a web traffic filter which “talks” to the user via the semaphore-like cues it inserts in visited web pages, signaling how safe it is to follow a given...
Threat research
“How to hide a malicious DLL? How about in plain sight?” One can easily imagine such thoughts going through the mind of whoever is churning out new versions of the Lavandos malware. After execution, the malware uses the Windows Registry...
The latest incarnation of the TDL3 rootkit is capable of infecting x64 systems. Ironically enough, the basic techniques used to achieve this are positively ancient by the computing world’s standards, having been perfected in the MS-DOS age.
Outsourcing malware development to legitimate coders may be a losing tactic for criminals – if only it could be exploited.