Symantec has released a free public beta of Norton AntiBot, which uses behaviour analysis to detect malware. The software is based on existing technology from Sana Security, with a few minor additions from Symantec’s SONAR behavioural scanning technology that is now included in Norton products.
A new hacking method is causing concern for the lengths it goes to avoid detection by security software and researchers. The attack involves a website that has been hacked to host malicious code, an increasingly common trap on the Internet. If a user visits one of the sites with an unpatched machine, it’s possible that the computer can become automatically infected with code that can record keystrokes and steal financial data typed into forms.
Three variants of a smartphone Trojan, which requires less user interaction than previous mobile malware to infect devices, have been seen in the wild, according to security experts.
Different forms of the Viver Trojan, or Trojan-SMS.SymbOS.Viver, were placed on a popular file-sharing site, disguised as a photo editor and a set of video codecs, the security specialist said.