There are a lot of discussions going on about net neutrality. Kevin Townsend talked about that recently in an answer to my Freedom vs Security blog. A big concern nowadays is how certain industries, such as the music one, are lobbying governments to protect their particular interests. I’m not going to discuss this topic today […]
This German site (in-vogue.de) is hosting malware:in-vogue.de/Scripts/DSC000034774321.exeVirusTotal (4/43)Upon execution you might see fireworks (if you are running Process Explorer):This is poorly written malware, although whoever wrote it made sure it would run after a reboot:After execution, the malware downloads an additional component from: in-vogue.de/Scripts/update.exe (Virus Total 4/42).Also noticeable are constant pings to 92.241.168.23 (Russian IP).The IP […]
TDL-4 Indestructible or not???
Our analysis, “TDL4 – Top Bot” by Sergey Golovanov and Igor Soumenkov, has rightly been getting a lot of attention. It’s an excellent analytical article which uncovers a very sophisticated and complex malware TDL-4 which is the latest version of TDSS. Some commentators and other security researchers however, focusing on our use of the word […]
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