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Bitcoins Still a Hot Security Topic
Interest in Bitcoin—the decentralized digital currency—is definitely growing. But as with anything established, it also sparks the interest of scammers. We have seen a few Trojans stealing Bitcoin...
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Waledac Reloaded: Trojan.Rloader.B
Recently, we blogged about systems compromised by W32.Virut that were observed downloading W32.Waledac.D (Kelihos). Symantec has followed the Waledac evolution for a number of years and have observed...
View ArticleSymantec Protections for TravNet
Today, Kaspersky published a paper titled “The NeTTraveler (aka ‘TravNeT’).” The paper provides analysis on a targeted attack campaign that is targeting various organizations worldwide, such as...
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依然としてセキュリティ上の注目を浴びる Bitcoin
分散型のデジタル通貨 Bitcoin に対する関心が高くなっているのは確かです。しかし、注目を集めるものの常として、Bitcoin は詐欺師の関心も集めています。これまでの数年間に、Bitcoin ウォレットを盗むトロイの木馬がいくつか発見されています。また、Bitcoin マイナーをインストールするトロイの木馬も、もはや珍しくはありません。先週確認された例からも、犯罪者の Bitcoin...
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Mistakes are costing companies millions from avoidable data breaches
Lately not a day goes by without a major news story on cybercriminals, hacktivists, and spies. These are generally viewed as the main threat actors behind the data breaches that we spend so much time...
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トルコ警察になりすました Facebook のセキュリティ詐欺
寄稿: Avdhoot Patilフィッシング攻撃のプラットフォームとしてソーシャルネットワークサイトを集中的に利用する例が後を絶ちません。シマンテックでも、ソーシャルネットワークに関連したフィッシング攻撃を何度も確認しています。フィッシングの餌としては、有名人を利用した宣伝、偽のアプリケーション、無料の通話時間、懸賞などが多用されています。最近では、トルコの Facebook...
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Multiple Exchange Mailboxes and Enterprise Vault
In Outlook 2010 and above Microsoft introduced a new feature of having multiple Exchange accounts in the same Outlook profile. Prior to this version of Outlook, you couldn't do that. Whilst this is a...
View ArticleCitrix kills its Application Streaming feature, directs users to App-V
http://searchvirtualdesktop.techtarget.com/news/2240184559/Citrix-kills-its-Application-Streaming-feature-directs-users-to-App-VBridget Botelho, News Director, and Alyssa Wood, Site Editor Published:...
View ArticleTwitter Advertising 101
My colleague Christy has written before about the value of Twitter as a communications tool for Symantec Partners. Twitter is a great way for interacting with customers and prospects in a real-time...
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Waledac 再び: Trojan.Rloader.B
W32.Virutに感染したシステムで W32.Waledac.D（Kelihos）のダウンロードが確認されたことを、少し前にこのブログでもご報告しました。シマンテックは Waledac の進化を何年も追い続けており、過去に実施された停止の試みに対してこのボットネットが非常に強い回復力を示したことを確認しています。Waledac は従来、1 日に最大で 2000...
View ArticleTravNet に対するシマンテックの保護対策
6 月 5 日、Kaspersky 社は「The NeTTraveler (aka 'TravNeT')」（英語）と題するホワイトペーパーを公開しました。このホワイトペーパーでは、政府機関、企業、民間団体など世界中のさまざまな組織を狙う、ある標的型攻撃について解析されています。この調査は、「Travnet Trojan Could Be Part of APT Campaign（Travnet...
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Citadel’s Defenses Breached
Contributor: Piotr KrysiukOn June 5, Microsoft announced that they had worked together with members of the financial services industry and the FBI to disrupt the operations of a banking Trojan horse...
View ArticleSave the Date July 18 is our next meeting
Hello Everyone: We are planning on a meeting Thursday July 18 2013 at the same place:The Symantec office in Southfield. The time will be 11:00 AM with lunch to be served. We will be discussing...
View ArticleWorkspace Virtualization and Workspace Streaming 7.5 Release Preview - Now...
The Workspace Virtualization and Workspace Streaming 7.5 Release Preview is now available!Please download and begin testing. Log in (or create) your SymBeta account...
View ArticleWhat's new with Latest Symantec Endpoint Protection SEP 12.1.RU3
Hello,Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1.RU3 has been released on June 6 2013.You may find the latest release, Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1.RU3, here:This build's version is: 12.1.3001.165Upgrade...
View ArticleNetbackup Appliance 5230 vs 5220
5230 has same capacity options as NetBackup 52205230 has same form factor & expansion shelf (2U+3U+3U)5230 has 12 compute cores, 5220 has 8 cores64 or 128GB RAM on 5230, 48 or 96GB RAM on...
View ArticleWhat to Wear
Many high-tech companies are researching wearable technologies, i.e. things that you can wear and help to make your life easier. Probably causing the biggest stir in the technology community recently...
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Citadel ボットネットの活動停止
寄稿: Piotr Krysiuk6 月 5 日、Microsoft 社は金融業界および FBI との協力により、オンラインバンキングを狙う Citadel というトロイの木馬プログラムの活動を停止に追い込んだことを発表しました。この停止措置により、1,000 以上の Citadel ボットネットがオフラインになりました。Citadel はオンラインバンキングを狙うトロイの木馬のひとつで、2011...
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Backdoor.Tranwos Abuses EFS to Prevent Forensic Analysis
Recently, we discovered a threat that abuses the Encrypting File System (EFS), which Symantec detects as Backdoor.Tranwos. Not only is it trivial for program code to use EFS, it’s also very effective...
View ArticleConnect Dev Notes: 11 June 2013
User Facing: DesktopAdded a way for users to enter a alternate email address to their user profile for email notifications.Added the ability for privileged users to translate forum posts.Removed the "0...
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