Apple sneaks anti-malware update into Snow Leopard Ten months after it debuted rudimentary malware scanning in Snow Leopard, Apple last week quietly added a signature for a third piece of malware, security researchers reported. According to U.K-based antivirus vendor Sophos and U.S

Looking For Vulns In All The Right Places? Experts Say You Might Be Missing A Few The biggest vulnerabilities in the enterprise might be items we see every day — and just don’t think about

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Alleged Russian Malware Host Cut Off By Upstream Provider News: Stream Awarded LEED Silver Certification for San Antonio Data Center News: Equinix Leases More Space at NJ Data Center News: Carpathia Hosting, Citrix and VMLogix Collaborate for Cloud-based Development and Testing News: Citrix Anticipates Server Virtualization Market Share Gains As It Unveils Latest XenServer Release May 17, 2010 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — A Russian-based Internet service provider known to harbor online criminals was reportedly knocked offline Friday after its upstream provider had its service cut off. According to a report from The New New Internet , PROXIEZ-NET hosted at least 13 known Zeus command and control channels before being set adrift by its upstream provider, DIGERNET

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Alleged Russian Malware Host Cut Off By Upstream Provider News: Stream Awarded LEED Silver Certification for San Antonio Data Center News: Equinix Leases More Space at NJ Data Center News: Carpathia Hosting, Citrix and VMLogix Collaborate for Cloud-based Development and Testing News: Citrix Anticipates Server Virtualization Market Share Gains As It Unveils Latest XenServer Release May 17, 2010 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — A Russian-based Internet service provider known to harbor online criminals was reportedly knocked offline Friday after its upstream provider had its service cut off. According to a report from The New New Internet , PROXIEZ-NET hosted at least 13 known Zeus command and control channels before being set adrift by its upstream provider, DIGERNET

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: New York City – March 25, 2010 Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Trusteer Flashlight Provides Malware Analysis and Remediation for Financial Institutions News: Web Host Verio Reports Record Channel Growth News: Teleco Telx Links GTT for Gigabit Ethernet News: Hosting.com Launches Enterprise-Class Server Replication Solution (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In an effort to help banks and other organizations prevent future losses, block subsequent attacks, and take down command and control servers, secure browsing services provider Trusteer ( www.trusteer.com ) has launched Trusteer Flashlight, a remote fraud investigation and mitigation service that identifies the attack source on a customer’s machine, gathers samples, and can reverse engineer the mechanism used by the malware to commit fraud. Online banking fraud involving the electronic transfer of funds has been on the rise since 2007 and rose to over US$120 million in the third quarter of 2009, according to estimates presented at the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco by the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, with nearly all incidents relating to malware on online banking customers’ PCs. According to its Monday announcement, Trusteer’s new service performs remote forensic investigations on customer machines to detect source of fraud and mitigate future attacks

New BlackEnergy Trojan Targeting Russian, Ukrainian Banks Russian hackers have written a more sophisticated version of the infamous BlackEnergy Trojan associated with the 2008 cyberattacks against Georgia that now targets Russian and Ukrainian online banking customers. Joe Stewart, a security researcher with SecureWorks, says Russian hackers are using the Trojan spread via the BlackEnergy botnet to hit Russian and Ukrainian banks with a two-pronged attack that steals their customers’ online banking credentials and then wages a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the banks as a cover: “They may be emptying the bank accounts while the banks are busy cleaning up from the DDoS,” Stewart says. ..

If you’re a mobile entrepreneur and haven’t yet met Tim Chang, you’re not going to enough conferences. Ever since his firm, Norwest Venture Partners, raised a whopping $1.2 billion fund last year, Chang has been active on the speaking circuit (he even sported a bass guitar on the bandstand at Vator Splash this month)

New Banking Trojan Discovered Targeting Businesses’ Financial Accounts The infamous Zbot botnet that spreads the pervasive Zeus Trojan has been seen distributing a brand-new banking Trojan — one that researchers say could serve as a lower-cost alternative to the popular Zeus and Clampi malware for cybercriminals. The new Bugat Trojan, which was discovered by researchers at SecureWorks, appears to be aimed at mostly business customers of large and midsize banks

New Russian botnet tries to kill rival An upstart Trojan horse program has decided to take on its much-larger rival by stealing data and then removing the malicious program from infected computers. Security researchers say that the relatively unknown [Spy Eye toolkit] added this functionality just a few days ago in a bid to displace its larger rival, known as Zeus.

Just when it seems as though malware and Trojan attacks could not get much worse, along comes yet another to toss a monkey wrench into the works. The latest.

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