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While working on the release of the latest version of the McAfee Network Security Platform, which offers advanced malware and botnet protection, we tested a sample of the malware Red October. With the help of our in-house advanced botnet analysis framework, we analyzed the network traffic generated by this sample and tracked its communications with the […]

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“Red October” in the title of Tom Clancy’s bestselling novel referred to a Soviet submarine whose silent propulsion system made it undetectable to sonar. It’s a fitting name for the sophisticated cyber-espionage network that has recently been identified after collecting high-level data from governments, embassies and diplomatic networks, energy companies, and other sensitive systems for […]

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Since our announcement about “Red October”, we’ve received a lot of questions on how to quickly identify compromised systems. That’s why together with our partner Alienvault we’ve decided to put together a small whitepaper for CERTs and system administrators which can help identify and mitigate the attack. The small whitepaper includes summarized information about malware’s […]

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