New strain of data thieving malware Qbot unleashed Researchers have uncovered a new strain of data-stealing trojan Qbot. The malware has infected more than 54,000 PCs in thousands of organisations across the world. Incident response experts at BAE Systems came across the malware variant during an engagement at an unnamed public sector organisation. The Qbot-related attack …
Anyone only relying on AV should read the section entitled "Server-based polymorphism", think about it, go and change their trousers and start thinking about NIDs, egress rules on their firewall, and the whole panoply of stuff you really need to defend against the current swathe of baddies. Oh and sort out your backups while you are at it.
and easy to work with.
Take windows 3.x for instance. Using a really good memory manager, you don't need anything newer unless you are doing MM. And if you are doing MM, use a different system. And if you are on a network, use something like zone-alarm, it might get in, but it cant get out.
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