We have earlier discussed the fact that cyber criminals are getting increasingly sophisticated in their attempts to succeed in obtaining illegitimate gain. We will now look into an example of how illegitimate businesses imitate legitimate.
The Internet Crime Complaint Center's (IC3) report for 2009 has just been published, and is interesting reading. Not the least when comparing the actual submitted complaints to what is focused upon in the media.
W32/Bredolab is a trojan downloader that connects to the server hard-coded in to the executable and downloads the malware in order to compromise the system security, depending on the instruction available in the server.
The RSA Conferences are among of the most important annual security conferences. This year's US conference was held in San Francisco 1 - 5 March. One of the speakers was Microsoft's Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President Trustworthy Computing. His speech covered several interesting topics, of which we will discuss one: the ability, usefulness and implications of treating infected computers in a similar manner as infected human beings.
Microsoft has issued a security advisory about a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer. According to Microsoft this vulnerability could allow remote code execution, and it is being actively exploited in targeted attacks.

