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Don’t fall for Folstart

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Nov

2012

We use thumb drives in different ways – usually to transfer files from one computer to another. When we create folders in thumb drives, we have a certain level of confidence that the folder isn’t malicious or doesn’t contain malware. Unfortunately, this assumption is not always true. For the month of November, we added the Folstart […]

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Compromised WordPress sites Drive Users to Blackhole Exploit Kit

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Mar

2012

We were alerted to reports of a mass compromise of WordPress sites that lead to CRIDEX infection. To lure users to these compromised sites, the cybercriminals behind this employed spammed messages purporting to come from known legitimate sources such Better Business Bureau and LinkedIn, just to name a few. These spam use social engineering tactics […]

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MSRT December: Win32/Helompy

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Dec

2011

The December 2011 edition of the MSRT includes detection and clean-up for the Win32/Helompy Family. Helompy is a worm that propagates by copying itself to the root of removable drives, and its main payload is to record account credentials and login information and send them to a remote server, where the attacker could retrieve them […]

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