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In this Q&A with Ryan Naraine, Kaspersky talks about the different eras in malicious computer activity, from passive viruses to Internet worms to botnets and, now, a new era of cyber-warfare. – on Securelist / All Updates

Facebook adds a new profile option, and may affect privacy. – on Securelist / All Updates

In early December, Kaspersky Lab experts detected samples of the malicious program TDL4 (a new modification of TDSS) which uses a 0-day vulnerability for privilege escalation under Windows 7/2008 x86/x64 (Windows Task Scheduler Privilege Escalation, CVE: 2010-3888). – on Securelist / All Updates

Kaspersky Lab can count itself lucky to have very diligent people which honorary moderate our official Kaspersky Lab forums, test our beta versions to find bugs before new products hit the market and create community projects. – on Securelist / All Updates

New attack via Twitter is in progress – on Securelist / All Updates

Costin Raiu, director of Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team, discusses the security risks involved with jailbreaking Apple’s iPhone. – on Securelist / All Updates

GpCode initially appeared in 2004, new versions appeared annually until 2008 and then a long silence – and now, a new and powerful GpCode-like ransomware is atttacking. – on Securelist / All Updates

GpCode.ax is not the only piece of ransomware today. We’ve just discovered a malware which overwrites the master boot record (MBR) and demands a ransom to retrieve a password and restore the original MBR. – on Securelist / All Updates

Apa kabar! AVAR 2010 has just ended. It took place on the beautiful Bali island of Indonesia.

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Malicious social applications in Orkut were used to redirect users to phishing domains

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Phishing attacks in Brazil now using real personal data of the victim

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Yesterday, Adobe published an advisory about a critical vulnerability in their Flash Player that is already being actively exploited. The exploit we are seeing right now has a payload which, while not being very sophisticated, holds several surprises.

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Another Facebook likejacking attempt is being spammed out to fool Facebook users with “5 things girls do before she meets her boyfriend”.

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Firefox users should be aware of a use-after-free vulnerability affecting Firefox versions 3.6.11 and earlier. The security team at Firefox has been working on getting a patch out since at least early Tuesday morning with a release candidate available for brave nightly build testers last night.

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Ryan Naraine talks to mobile malware researcher Denis Denis Maslennikov about the mobile malware landscape.

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The winners of Computer Weekly’s Blog Awards 2010 will be announced on the 18th of November.

That means you have one month (plenty of time) to head on over to Computer Weekly and vote.

F-Secure Labs is eligible in two categories.

News from the Lab is in the IT security category:

And Mikko is in the Twitter category:

Thanks for your consideration!

On 18/10/10 At 04:04 PM

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The monthly FakePlayer Trojan for Android phones

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Kaspersky Lab Senior Anti-Virus Researcher Roel Schouwenberg answers questions on the Stuxnet work, the resources and sophistication involved in the attack and the likely nation-state involvement.

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Do You Know Who’s Really Viewing Your Facebook Profile?

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There have been several reports about malware hosted on Mozilla and Google code servers. Now we also found malware hosted on My Opera community servers.

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This year the Virus Bulleting
Conference, one of the most prestigious annual events in the anti-virus
industry, took place in Vancouver, Canada.

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Myrtus and Guava: the epidemic, the trends, the numbers

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Another live XSS vulnerability in Orkut affected more than 180,000 users in Brazil.

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There have been several reports about malware hosted on Mozilla and Google code servers. Now we also found malware hosted on My Opera community servers.

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