April 2007 - Posts

New Panda Anti-Rootkit - Version 1.07

Pedro Bustamante at  27 April 07 04:15    
We're experiencing a lot of downloads of Panda AntiRootkit. Many thanks to all the people that are helping us improve this free utility by sending suggestions, comments, feedback and submitting new rootkits that are being found in the wild. I'm
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The rise of the (http) botnet

Pedro Bustamante at  17 April 07 08:29    
We're seeing more and more http-based botnet controllers. Even though these botnets are still limited in number of infected hosts, there's also some new and interesting exploit-frameworks being used to infect and populate these http-controlled
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ANI loader vulnerability analysis

Pedro Bustamante at  10 April 07 09:15    
The guys over at Hispasec have just published a very nice analysis of the ANI loader vulnerability. It's also very interesting to see the stats of unique samples received at VirusTotal that exploit the ANI vulnerability.
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Point-and-click Internet Explorer VML exploits

Pedro Bustamante at  09 April 07 09:00    
Just a curiosity, but today's the 3 month anniversary of the integer overflow vulnerability in VML (vgx.dll). We shouldn't get too caught up on the latest and greatest media-friendly PoC and keep an eye on what's going on in the underground.
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Updated Command-Line Scanner

Pedro Bustamante at  02 April 07 02:03    
Our win32 command-line scanner based on the Panda Engine v1.4.3 is still undergoing QA testing but we're releasing it here first for research purposes. Some of the new functionalities included are support of Vista platforms, Office12, SIS, MMS formats,
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Panda AntiRootkit Official Release

Pedro Bustamante at  02 April 07 11:44    
We're very glad to announce that Panda AntiRootkit 1.06 has finally been officially released for the mass market. It has taken a while since we've been implementing a lot of the suggestions and reports received during the alpha and beta testing
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