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Here's a translation of another interesting blog from my colleague Jorge Mieres at ESET Latin America (the original is in Spanish). Apologies in advance for any errors in interpreting and interpretation, and if you find the sub-headers flippant, that's my fault too.
Jorge told me about it (the blog, not my tendency to flippancy) several days … Read More…

Jorge Mieres posted this blog on the ESET Latin America web site at http://blogs.eset-la.com/laboratorio/2010/06/08/sitio-gobierno-ecuatoriano-comprometido-ataque/ today. Errors in interpretation and translation are, as usual, mine. Over to Jorge….
Criminal activity that exploits web sites is commonplace these days; nevertheless, when the affected Web site belongs to a governmental organization, the event takes on more relevance and impact, and … Read More…

[Update: Alex Matrosov has posted screenshots of the Twebot update at http://twitpic.com/1ousmx and http://twitpic.com/1ouse5.]
Juraj Malcho, the Head of our Lab in Bratislava, reports that there have been further developments regarding the tool for creating Twitter-controlled bots described by Jorge Mieres and Sebastián Bortnik, Security Analysts at ESET Latin America, in an earlier blog at http://www.eset.com/blog/2010/05/14/botnet-for-twits-applications-for-dummies.
As more … Read More…

Our colleagues in ESET Latin America have just blogged about an interesting botnet creation tool: the original blog is at http://blogs.eset-la.com/laboratorio/2010/05/14/botnet-a-traves-twitter/, by Jorge Mieres and Sebastián Bortnik, Security Analysts. (Mistakes in interpretation are, as usual, down to me!)
In the last years we have seen many security incidents driven by botnets and exploiting the technologies currently … Read More…

Our colleagues in ESET Latin-America have reported that a huge new malware distribution campaign is being carried out through the popular social network Facebook. In this instance, it is our old friend the Koobface worm that is being propagated. (For more about Koobface see Randy's post here, and for more about this particular iteration, see … Read More…

[Update: it's likely that the attacks described below will also take advantage of the more recent bombings in Dagestan, as described by the BBC here. Isn't it bad enough that horrors like this take place at all, let alone provide revenue for cybercriminals?]
Late last  night (30th March) I added a pointer to my earlier blog … Read More…

I came across an interesting article today on "Breaking the conventional scheme of infection" at the evil fingers blog site. Actually, it’s by my colleague in Argentinia, ESET Latin America Security Analyst, Jorge Mieres, but I didn’t realize that at first. (The original blog is in Spanish, and if your command of that language is … Read More…