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Bootkit Threat Evolution in 2011

Jan

2012

The year 2011 could be referred to as a year of growth in complex threats. Over the course of this year we witnessed an increase in the number of threats targeting the Microsoft Windows 64-bit platform, and bootkits in particular. Here is a self-explanatory diagram depicting the evolution of bootkit threats over time: And […]

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Cybercriminals switch from MBR to NTFS

Jul

2011

Modification of the hard drive areas responsible for the initial loading of the system has become increasing popular with cybercriminals. Moreover, cybercriminals have now moved on from just modifying the MBR (master boot record) to infecting the code of the NTFS loader. We recently discovered an interesting piece of malware — Cidox. It is peculiar […]

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