malware

Jiangmin Releases 2007 Virus Report (repost)

vietjim — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:44:00 -0600

China Tech News reports:
Jiangmin, one of the largest anti-virus software providers in China, has published its annual computer virus epidemic report and top ten virus rank for 2007, which shows that the company blocked more than 363,000 kinds of new computer viruses in 2007 when an accumulative 34,414,793 computers were attacked.
They spot a disturbing trend:
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Jiangmin Releases 2007 Virus Report

vietjim — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:26:00 -0600

Make Your Own Malware (in Chinese)

vietjim — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:26:00 -0600

F-Secure, the anti-virus and security company, has a great post in its blog explaining why there are so many variants of malicious software (malware) out there.
They provide the example (with screen shots) of a Chinese kit to build variants of the Hupigon trojan. The kit allows the user to pick what kind of file [...]
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All Hail the King: Kaspersky Succeeds in Rising Suit

vietjim — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:35:00 -0600

Pacific Epoch reports:
Chinese anti-virus software company Rising was found on December 19 to have engaged in unfair competition with its Russian competitor Kaspersky, reports Sohu. Tianjin No.1 Intermediate People’s Court ordered Rising to pay RMB451,000 in compensation to Kaspersky, post a public apology for a week, as well as delete all slanderous posts about Kaspersky, [...]
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Symantec Explains How to Get Pwned in China

vietjim — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:38:33 -0600

Symantec’s Security Response Weblog provides an excellent analysis of how hackers can exploit a vulnerability to hack your PC. The server in question has, over time, hosted at least ten variants of malicious code (malware) used to attack connecting PCs. Symantec:Clearly this piece of malware attempts to cover its bases pretty well in [...]
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Please Be Careful When Stealing “Lust, Caution”

vietjim — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 08:47:08 -0600

The director Ang Lee’s new film Lust, Caution is proving to be a hit in China. I haven’t seen it yet, but it has hit the DVD stores here already. When the film was released to the theaters in China, seven minutes of really naughty sex scenes were deleted to appease the censors. [...]
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Cyberespionage: J’Accuse!

vietjim — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:37:33 -0500

China Tradezone provides an update on the Germany-China cyberespionage brouhaha:Hans Elmar Remberg, vice president of the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution, told a Berlin conference on industrial espionage that his country was involved in “the Chinese cyber war”.“In our view, state Chinese interests stand behind these digital attacks,” Reuters reported.“Supporting this view [...]
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Paving the Road for IT Security Law in Guangdong

vietjim — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:24:27 -0500

People’s Daily reports:Legislators in Guangdong Province are planning to amend a draft regulation on the security of computer-based information systems.Elements include:…ensuring website operators “establish a sound security system” and the introduction of “serious punishments for violators of computer information systems”.…Actions defined as posing a threat to security include entering a system without permission, or illegally [...]
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Fighting Spam in China: What Happens if You Soil Your Whitelist?

vietjim — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:33:29 -0500

China Tech News reports on the Internet Society of China’s new effort to fight spam in China:News from the Forum on Green Network Culture Construction held in Kunshan this week is that the Internet Society of China will formally launch a whitelist for individual email users in order to provide a safer, faster, spam-free email [...]
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A Hollywood Ending to the Great Panda Virus Caper

vietjim — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:07:11 -0500

The CaperIn January of 2007 Kaspersky Labs received reports of a new and nasty virus in China that changed icons into pandas and stole IDs and passwords for online games and the QQ IM service. The virus was so terrible that the Shanghai Information Technology Service Center was driven to issue their first-ever five [...]
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