Malware, Network Security, Patch/Configuration Management, Vulnerability Management

Srizbi detection added

February 11, 2009

Microsoft has added detection for the infectious Srizbi malware family to its Software Removal Tool, released Tuesday with the company's monthly patches. Srizbi is a trojan downloader or rootkit that propagates through malicious emails. If recipients fall victim, their machines become part of a botnet, whose chief goal is to deliver spam. In October, Microsoft added similar detection for the Rustock bot malware. — DK

An In-Depth Guide to Network Security

Get essential knowledge and practical strategies to fortify your network security.

Learn More

Dan Kaplan

Data Security

Crypto stealing malware spread via bogus recruitment messages

SC StaffDecember 31, 2024

Malicious job offers purporting to be from widely known companies have been leveraged by threat actors to facilitate the distribution of cryptocurrency-stealing malware, reports Cybernews.

Ransomware

Novel malware leveraged in Cloud Atlas attacks

SC StaffDecember 30, 2024

Attacks with the new VBCloud malware have been deployed by Russian state-backed threat operation Cloud Atlas, also known as Clean Ursa, Oxygen, Inception, and Red October, to facilitate data theft against dozens of users, most of whom are in Russia, reports The Hacker News.

North Korea hacking concept of a computer keyboard and a key painted with the North Korean flag

Threat Intelligence

Novel OtterCookie malware added to Contagious Interview attack arsenal

SC StaffDecember 27, 2024

BleepingComputer reports that intrusions with the new OtterCookie malware and its updated iteration have been launched by North Korean threat actors against software developers as part of the Contagious Interview campaign, which initially involved the deployment of the BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret payloads.

Related Events

Get daily email updates

SC Media's daily must-read of the most current and pressing daily news