John McDonald

Microsoft 社にいる友人が最近、同社で Popureb と呼ばれているカテゴリから見つかった、ブートキットのトロイの木馬の新しい亜種に関する ブログ記事を書いています 。この亜種 Win32/Popureb.E は、悪質なマスターブートレコード（MBR）や他の悪質なコンポーネントの除去を妨げるドライバコンポーネントを組み込みます。 Microsoft 社のブログに書かれた以下の 1 文が意味するところをすばやく察知したテクニカルライターがいます。 「お使いのシステムが Trojan:Win32/Popureb.E に感染した場合は、Windows 回復コンソ

A colleague of mine recently wrote about one of the June “Microsoft Tuesday” vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild . Because we're a bit like that, we decided to allow the exploit to compromise one of our honeypot computers so we could observe what happened. The exploit first cam

Recap If you missed Parts I and II of this blog series, you can find them here and here . I finished Part II promising to reveal the organization behind this sorry saga.   Following the trail The trail really wasn’t very hard to follow. When we looked up some of the IP a

Introduction We post a lot of blogs here about all kinds of threats, including pervasive botnets, rootkits, rogue apps, the latest flavor of spam doing the rounds, and so on and so forth. So, for a change I thought I’d talk about something a bit more personal that happened closer to home—s

Almost a year has passed since we last blogged about a new undocumented vulnerability in JustSystems’ Ichitaro software and along with the ever stunning new pink and white blossoms of spring, 2010’s first offering has surfaced. As we have reported on several occasions over the years (see below) Ic

It's only been a couple of short weeks since the iPhone background-changing incident that took the world by storm (well, parts of Australia at least), but already a Dutch ISP has reported  what would be the first malicious iPhone worm to be seen in the wild. Unfortunate news to be sure

It seems someone has it in for Delphi. Or at least older Delphi environments and programs compiled using them. As has been reported, there is a threat on the loose that targets Delphi development environments, specifically versions 4 through 7. To provide some brief background, Delphi is a so

Well, it's that time of year again. April is the first month of the fiscal year in Japan, and a time when people look forward to the breath-taking beauty of cherry blossoms—known as sakura in Japan—slowly covering the country from end to end for an all-too-brief few weeks. Unfortunately i