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MSRT September 2013 – Win32/Simda

Sep

2013

This month’s Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) release includes one new malware family – the high-volume banking trojan Win32/Simda. Simda is a multi-component malware family that includes trojan, backdoor, password-stealing, downloader and file-infector variants. It is very rare for a single malware family to possess all of these characteristics; Alureon and Sirefef are among […]

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No paysafecard needed, your passwords will pay off

May

2013

The past year has been one of expansion for ransomware. Throughout 2012 an increasing number of blogs, tutorials and discussion forums were written to help people gain access to ransomware-locked computers without paying the ransom. The authors of Reveton ransomware are aware that the persistence of their malware on a system is not only narrowed by […]

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An analysis of Dorkbot’s infection vectors (part 1)

Nov

2012

Malware nowadays benefits from the complexity of the Internet ecosystem to infect new computers through vectors such as browser plugins, social networks, and instant messaging programs. In this two-parter series, we’ll look at Worm:Win32/Dorkbot, a prevalent worm with the capabilities of an IRC backdoor and a password stealer. Dorkbot relies both on social engineering attacks […]

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