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Skype Messages Spreading DORKBOT Variants

Oct

2012

As reported earlier by Rik Ferguson, users are facing more waves of Skype spammed messages. These attacks are being used to distribute various threats, including ransomware and infostealers.These attacks, which arrive as Skype messages, ask if the user has a new profile picture:The link (which includes the username of the recipient) goes to a file […]

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Java Zero-Days and the Blackhole Exploit Kit

Sep

2012

Last week’s Java zero-day vulnerability has been exploited by many exploit kits in the wild, including the familiar Blackhole Exploit Kit.In this blog entry, we thought we would describe some of the outbreaks related to this attack we’ve seen in the past week or so. Our automated processes that are a part of the Trend […]

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Caring About QUERVAR

Aug

2012

We have received several reports and inquiries about file infectors PE_QUERVAR.B-O (mother file infector) and PE_QUERVAR.B (infected file). Both are getting some media attention, specifically in Europe. Reports identify infections registering mostly in Netherlands. Its massive spreading maybe explained by a couple of things: It infects file that are most commonly found and shared in […]

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