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LOL Links Wake Up Rage?

01

Nov

2012

W32.IRCBot.NG and W32.PhopifasIn a previous blog, my colleague Kevin Savage detailed a social engineering attack that utilized instant messaging applications. While the infection rates of W32.IRCBot.NG and W32.Phopifas have passed their peaks, the modules continue to be updated daily.The infection routine of these threats has not changed since they were discovered, but the threat authors […]

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ZACCESS/SIREFEF Arrives with New Infection Technique

15

Aug

2012

During the last weeks of July, we received reports from customers that their services.exe files were being patched by an unknown malware. The patched services.exe, detected by Trend Micro as PTCH_ZACCESS (for 32-bit version) and PTCH64_ZACCESS (for 64-bit version), was verified to be a component of the SIREFEF/ZACCESS malware family. ZACCESS (also known as ZEROACCESS) […]

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W32/XDocCrypt.a Infects Executable and Doc Files

11

Aug

2012

We have seen malware that infects executables operate so that the malicious code runs first, and is then followed by the execution of host file. The malware XDocCrypt takes this a step further. Besides infecting portable executable files, it also infects Microsoft Word and Excel files. In an infected file, the malware body sits at […]

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