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Recently, I talked at the VB2012 conference in Dallas about one of the recent developments in today’s threat landscape: the increasing prevalence of police ransomware. Earlier, Trend Micro published a white paper discussing this threat, titled The “Police Trojan”.The idea behind ransomware is relatively simple: the cybercriminals block the user from accessing their own computer. […]

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Our description for Backdoor:OSX/Tsunami.A is now online. Tsunami is a Mac OS X backdoor with bot functionality. The bot is capable of participating in DDoS attacks, and in fact, one variant attempts to connect to an IRC server with “anonops” in its name — as in (Internet collective) Anonymous Ops. Because there is no obvious […]

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