This blog – News from the Lab – was started 4,232 days ago to monitor the Mydoom worm's DDoS attack on sco.com. A bit more than 11 years and two months… and we're now moving this blog to a new home. https://labsblog.f-secure.com If you follow News from the Lab via an RSS feed, point your reader of choice here. (We'll setup a 301 redirect in the...

Posted by Sean @ 12:52 GMTOur "construction project" is progressing nicely. And it should resolve this… Fix mobile usability issues? Translation: your site doesn't help us sell more Android phones and ads. But whatever, the "issues" should be fixed soon enough. On 18/08/15 At 12:52 PM

Our "construction" work is progressing nicely. Fix mobile usability issues? Translation: your site doesn't help us sell more Android phones and ads. But whatever, the "issues" should be fixed soon enough. On 18/08/15 At 12:33 PM

Posted by Sean @ 13:25 GMTRegular readers will have noticed it's been slow here of late. Under Construction We're finally undertaking an upgrade from Greymatter 1.7.3. This may be the world's oldest Greymatter blog… that will now change. More info coming soon. In the meantime, you can still catch us on Twitter. On 13/08/15 At 01:25 PM

Ask, and sometimes, you shall receive.Last Friday, we wrote about call center scammers targeting iOS. And today, Apple released a new (beta) feature that should help.Apple released iOS 9 Public Beta 2:And it appears that one of Safari's new features allows people to block fraud-focused JavaScript.We tested a scam-site and after a few attempts to dismiss...

Recent weeks have seen the outing of two new additions to the Duke group's toolset, SeaDuke and CloudDuke. Of these, SeaDuke is a simple trojan made interesting by the fact that it's written in Python. And even more curiously, SeaDuke, with its built-in support for both Windows and Linux, is the first cross-platform malware we have observed from the...