January 8th, 2008
by Pierre-Marc Bureau
Researcher at ESET

There was another twist today in the Nuwar story: it is now being used to host phishing sites. The gang behind this prolific malware has registered several domain names similar those used by well-known banks such as Barclays and Halifax and is directing web requests for these misspelled domain names to computers infected with Nuwar. The infected computers run web servers that serve a fake login page to steal the user name and password of any visitor who enters their information.

Posted by Johnathan Kastner at 09:40

"The virus caused a range of problems which were only resolved after Cresswell installed Eset's NOD32.... with the help of NOD32, he quickly identified the virus and eliminated it from his client's systems."

Opera Australia is Australia's major opera company, and is one of the busiest in the world, presenting around 600 performances per year.

The operating environment of the company is complex and blends next-generation applications with legacy systems, a set-up, which can complicate the security choices available to the IT staff.

Posted by Johnathan Kastner in NOD32 News at 08:59

Many websites apparently meant to mourn Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's murder by assassin were really designed to help spread malware for fraud and other nefarious purposes. This proves again how quickly Internet criminals can move to capitalize on opportunities to find new victims. Most of these malicious websites are located at the free blog site hosted by Google. These personal websites materialized almost immediately after Bhutto's death, and were built to spread viruses. The Google Blogspot pages that promised a video of the assassination of Bhutto were quite popular since they gave an alternative angle to the official Government explanation regarding the cause of death of Bhutto, and remain active today, claim security analysts.

Posted by Johnathan Kastner at 10:34

By Randy Abrams, ESET, Director of Technical Education, ESET
January 3, 2008

With pundits making predictions for the state of cyber-crime and malicious software in 2008, one might be tempted to say, "OK, but what should I do with this information?" ESET's Director of Technical Education says that these predictions are fundamentally "more of the same."

With pundits making predictions for the state of cyber-crime and malicious software in 2008, one might be tempted to say, "OK, but what should I do with this information?"

Posted by Johnathan Kastner in Virus & AntiVirus News at 12:06