Malware Calendar Wallpaper for January 2011

We’d like to wish all our readers a very happy New Year and offer you a small gift – a selection of wallpaper calendars with the dates of the most significant events in the history of the IT security industry.

Right now you can install wallpaper dedicated to past events that occurred in the month of January. Throughout 2011 you will be able to download different wallpaper for each month.

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As well as being a pleasant background for your desktop we hope that our wallpaper will help you recall the key events and epidemics in the history of IT security. And hopefully such things won’t affect you in future, even if they did in the past.

Kaspersky researchers have discovered new Mirage Kitten attacks using previously undocumented malware families: NodeRabbit in Node.js and PollCat in JavaScript.

Our experts discovered a new CoolClient backdoor variant with a kernel-mode rootkit driver that hides malicious processes, files, and network connections from security tools and threat analysts.

Kaspersky experts break down a new Armored Likho campaign that poses as a fundraising efforts and delivers a new Still Toolkit aimed at stealing Telegram data and eavesdropping on victims.

Kaspersky researchers reveal previously undocumented malware attributed to Mirage Kitten (UNC1549, Smoke Sandstorm, Nimbus Manticore): NightLedger backdoor, ArcBridge, and BridgeHead tunneling tools.