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Summarizing Zero Day's Posts for April

THE CT BLOG · May 8, 2009

Summarizing Zero Day's Posts for April

01. Conficker worm's copycat Neeris spreading over IM 
02. Paul McCartney's official site serving malware 
03. Fake "Conficker Infection Alert" spam campaign circulating 
04. Twitter hit by multiple variants of XSS worm 
05. Scareware pops-up at FoxNews 
06. Waledac botnet spamming fake SMS spying tool 
07. Twitter worm author gets a job at exqSoft Solutions 
08. Google's CAPTCHA experiment and the human factor 
09. Hackers hijack DNS records of high profile New Zealand sites 
10. New ransomware locks PCs, demands premium SMS for removal 
11. Conficker's estimated economic cost? $9.1 billion 
12. Swine flu email scams circulating 
13. Online broker CommSec criticised for weak passwords, lack of SSL 
14. Survey: 37% of employees would become insiders given the right incentive 
15. French hacker gains access to Twitter's admin panel


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Originally published at https://warintel.blogspot.com/2009/05/summarizing-zero-days-posts-for-april.html on May 8, 2009.