Archive for March, 2007

Today’s Other Malware Threat: IE7.0.exe

March 29, 2007 by Jose Nazario

Lest you think that the ANI thing was the only thing going on today, you’d miss the other part of today’s entertainment. There’s a new Trojan spam going around trying to entice you to download MSFT IE7.0 Beta 2 (never mind that it’s been released). This is, in fact, a new Trojan (Grum) and appears [...]

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Any ANI File Could Infect You!

March 29, 2007 by Jose Nazario

It’s been a busy day in the ASERT team office. Brand spanking new Windows vulnerability to shake up the past several days of minor notes and issues. Animated cursors, objects on web pages or embedded in emails, malicious files … malware downloaded and launched. Sound familiar? It should be, this feels like last year’s IE [...]

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Network Transactions

March 16, 2007 by Douglas Fleming

I have been spending quite some time understanding what the meaning of network transactions is to my customers, and the differences have been fascinating to explore. As more and more information moves around in the network, and the nature of that information is more readily available and potentially private to both personal users and business [...]

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