A few days after the release of a proof-of-concept virus that infects the TI-89 calculators, the author himself released two versions of disinfectors for the virus. The first version prevents the virus from execution by patching the virus with the original bytes from the host while the second version finds the EPO injection made by…

A Russian antivirus company has reported a proof-of-concept virus that runs in iPodLinux (an open source port of Linux in iPod) on top of Podzilla 2 user interface. The virus which marks the infected files with “Oslo” was written by the same author of PE_IKOL.A. It has no destructive payload but merely shows the tux…

There is a huge volume of unsolicited emails that run through the veins and arteries of the Internet every single second of the day and this particular phish is just one of them. TrendLabs has received a report that there has been a spam run that appears to be seeded from Germany. The phish claims…

Microsoft did a big security bulletin release today to resolve a number of vulnerabilities that exist on their line of products. I’ve also been looking into MS07-014 and MS07-015 if all of these releases resolve all the MS Office Zero-Days that we recently encountered.Critical(MS07-008) Vulnerability in HTML Help ActiveX Control Could Allow Remote Code Execution…

We have been receiving numerous samples from our honeypot systems that is really striking in numbers. Okay, nothing so much special about this and just like the current tactics of email-borne malwares, a flavor of social engineering was poured into its email to effectively lure unsuspecting users to open and execute the attachment. Beware of…