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Solution and Winner of the 2nd Panda Challenge 2010
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/solution-and-winner-of-the-2nd-panda-challenge-2010/
The Panda Challenge is over. More people have participated in the 2nd challenge, even though it was way more difficult. In fact, as we thought, no one was able to obtain a valid license key for the game.As announced, in this case the winner will be the first one who succeeds in unpacking completely and [...]
Tue, 27 Jul 10
Shedding some light on Mariposa
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/shedding-some-light-on-mariposa/
A few days ago some arrests in Slovenia were announced. People is wondering if this is really linked to the Mariposa case,as the guys behind Mariposa were from Spain, and the people arrested are from Slovenia.Back in March, when the story went public, we talked about the Spanish guys arrested, and that they had bought [...]
Thu, 22 Jul 10
Broken links
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/broken-links/
A few days ago, on July 16th, Microsoft published a security advisory:“The vulnerability exists because Windows incorrectly parses shortcuts in such a way that malicious code may be executed when the icon of a specially crafted shortcut is displayed.”Translation: any folder you open with a .lnk file (you know, that nice shortcuts we [...]
Tue, 20 Jul 10
Solution and Winner of the 1st Panda Challenge 2010
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/solution-and-winner-of-the-1st-panda-challenge-2010/
Well, the first challenge has officially come to an end. More than 1000 people downloaded it, though we only received 12 correct answers. Here you have the explanation of the challenge solution detailed by its author, Joxean:The challenge is a crackme consisting in a little virtual machine developed in Free Pascal (http://freepascal.org). This VM has [...]
Sat, 17 Jul 10
Panda Challenge 2010 Edition: 1st challenge up!
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/panda-challenge-2010-edition-1st-challenge-up/
As promised, this 1st challenge is here: 1st-challenge.exe. To solve it, you have to create one valid license key for 999 users of this program.The license key has to be sent to pandachallenge at pandasecurity dot com before next Monday at 17:00 (GMT+2). To avoid any problem with the mail filters, any attachment has to [...]
Sat, 17 Jul 10
Dissecting a BlackHat SEO attack
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/dissecting-a-blackhat-seo-attack/
Each and every day we see new black hat SEO attacks, where criminals poison search engine results to spread malware. Today we were researching yet another attack, with some world cup terms targeted:When clicking on one of these malicious results, you go to a Youtube-like web:As usual, it will tell you that you need to [...]
Sat, 17 Jul 10
Fernanda Romero arrest leads to distribution of rogueware
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/fernanda-romero-arrest-leads-to-distribution-of-rogueware/
Fernanda Romero, a Mexican actress, was arrested this week for marriage fraud amid allegations.She paid an American man to help her become a U.S. citizen. Whether this is true or not, the bad guys have taken advantage of this and started spreading the rogueware SecurityMasterAV .Some of the keywords that can lead you to malicious [...]
Fri, 16 Jul 10
Gossip Computer Crimes
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/gossip-computer-crimes/
Yesterday we heard about some news regarding the arrest of a group of hackers accused of having launched attacks against several websites: those belonging to PSOE and PP (the main political parties in Spain), and surprisingly the website of Sálvame, a gossip show of a Spanish TV channel.The group, known as K0 team, had gained [...]
Fri, 16 Jul 10
Those who have a friend, have a honeypot.
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/esquien-tiene-un-amigo-tiene-un-honeypot/
Everyone has friends that from time to time can help you with the move. Even there are friends who help you with your work. Iñaki, a good friend of mine, has become a honeypot, obviously by accident. Several days ago I received an email message from him inviting me to download some pictures, in Portuguese.Neither [...]
Thu, 15 Jul 10
Is it safe to download pirated software?
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/is-it-safe-to-download-pirated-software/
One of the most frequently asked questions that we receive is, “Is it safe to download pirated software?”The answer? No, in most cases it’s not safe. Simply put, peer-to-peer networks are breeding grounds for malware and more specifically Trojans. PandaLabs receives and processes 55,000 samples a day, many of which are Trojans bundled with pirated [...]
Fri, 9 Jul 10
The Fake Car Tax
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/the-fake-car-tax/
Last weekend we detected a wave of spam messages used to distribute malware, emails that are still in circulation.It’s an attack mainly aimed at car owners, as the subject of these emails is about some changes in the car tax.It can reach the computer with any of the following subjects, among others:***BULK*** Adjustment in the [...]
Thu, 1 Jul 10
PandaLabs Quarterly Report – Q2 2010
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/pandalabs-quarterly-report-%e2%80%93-q2-2010/
Today we are releasing our Quarterly Report, covering the main trends in security from April to June 2010. Among other news, we’ll talk about some new attack techniques, such as Tabnabbing. Other security incidents covered are related to social networks, Black Hat SEO techniques and some of the numerous vulnerabilities discovered over these last three [...]