Blog Posts Tagged with "trojan"
Symantec Reverse Engineers OS X Flashback Malware
May 14, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Symantec researchers reverse engineered components of the Flashback malware that recently infected more than 600,000 Mac systems and reveal that it was designed in part as a highly profitable ad-clicking operation that could be net the Trojan's creators $10,000 per day...
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Multi-Platform Malware Targets Both Widows and Mac OS
April 27, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"If the threat is running on a Mac operating system, it downloads a dropper type malware written in Python. However, if the threat is running on a Windows operating system, it downloads a standard Windows executable file dropper. Both droppers drop a Trojan horse program..."
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Yet Another Flashback Variant Targeting Mac OS X
April 26, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Another Flashback Trojan malware variant has been discovered, and this one is even more insidious than those already identified - it can silently infect a Mac user's device. Flashback.S can stealthily infect a system without having tipped the victim off by requesting a password...
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Microsoft and Law Enforcement Hit Zeus Botnet Servers
March 26, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"With this legal and technical action, a number of the most harmful botnets using the Zeus family of malware worldwide have been disrupted in an unprecedented, proactive cross-industry operation against this cybercriminal organization..."
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Symantec Identifies New Duqu Trojan Driver Variant
March 20, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Symantec reports the discovery of a previously unseen driver (mcd9×86.sys) for Duqu that was apparently compiled as recently as February of this year, giving reason to believe the malware is very much alive and kicking...
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The FBI Can Haz Lulz Too...
March 15, 2012 Added by:Kevin McAleavey
Since Sabu's arrest a number of spurious lulz cannon tools have been interspersed in tweets, including the infamous LOIC, others containing added "call home" code, and some virused booty culminating in the latest release of "Anonymous OS" which is wrapped in trojans...
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DNSChanger: FBI’s Internet Blackout Postponed
March 06, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
For several months, news was circulating about the planned blackout of the Internet for potentially millions of users on March 8. Last week a federal judge postponed that order for 120 days to give businesses and governments more time to mitigate the DNSChanger threat...
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Sophisticated New Zeus Variants Continue to Propagate
February 24, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"Every peer in the botnet can act as a C&C server, while none of them really are one. Bots are now capable of downloading commands, configuration files, and executables from other bots - every compromised computer is capable of providing data to the other bots..."
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Symantec Identifies Polymorphic Android App Malware
February 06, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Researchers at Symantec have identified a crafty Trojan targeting Android devices which slightly modifies its code every time the malware is downloaded, a called server-side polymorphism, which makes it more difficult to detect by signature-based antivirus software defenses...
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New Drive-By Malware Spam Infects Upon Opening Email
February 01, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
According the announcement from researchers at Eleven, a German security firm, it is sufficient that a communication is merely opened in the email client to infect the target without the user clicking on a link or opening an attachment...
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Evidence of Chinese Attacks on US Defense Contractors
January 30, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
At least six Chinese IP addresses were used to proxy or host the command and control servers. The Netbox webserver is mainly used by those who speak Chinese. In fact, all the documentation to setup and learn the framework is only available in Mandarin...
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Symantec: Chinese Connection to Attacks on Defense Contractors
January 27, 2012 Added by:Headlines
The data Symantec published reinforces evidence from an earlier investigation conducted by AlienVault, which described an orchestrated sprear-phishing campaign most likely targeting information on US drone technology which utilized malware-infected PDF documents to deliver the Sykipot payload...
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The Implications of Malware-as-a-Service
January 25, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Criminal operations are managed as corporations and malware is designed as a service, with a maniacal attention paid to product quality. The life cycle is the most amazing aspect: From design, release, to after sales support - each stage is implemented with care and attention...
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FBI Warns: GameOver
January 10, 2012 Added by:Kevin McAleavey
The significant part of the DDOS angle with the GameOver Zeus Trojan attack is that it serves as a diversion while the looting continues, and prevents access to mitigation with the bank until it's too late. That's what motivated the FBI to put out this alert...
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Symantec: Anatomy of a Nitro Cyber Attack
December 13, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"They are sending targets a password-protected archive... which contains a malicious executable. The executable is a variant of Poison IVY and the email topic is some form of upgrade to popular software, or a security update. The most recent email brazenly claims to be from Symantec..."
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Duqu May Actually Be An Advanced Cyber Weapon
November 17, 2011 Added by:Headlines
“Why go to all this trouble to deploy a simple key-logger? Given that there are additional drivers waiting to be discovered, we can liken Duqu to a sophisticated rocket launcher – we have yet to see the real ammunition appear..."
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- Follow Up to the Out of Band Authentication Post
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