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6.25 DNS DDOS Attack In Korea

Jul

2013

Shortly after 10:00am Jun 25th 2013, many government websites from South Korea were not accessible. It was actually caused by the malware performing ddos attack on 2 major DNS servers (ns.gcc.go.kr and ns2.gcc.go.kr).Original Attack VectorDuring the investigation, we managed to find the original attack sample which was served by a compromised website at that time […]

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Delving Deeply Into a Bitcoin Botnet

May

2013

Bitcoin is a virtual decentralized currency that was created in 2009 by developer Satoshi Nakamoto, who described the currency in a paper. Recently Bitcoin has gotten lots of attention. In early 2013, the prices reached a high of US$265 per Bitcoin. The following chart shows the currency’s historical price:Because Bitcoin is a virtual currency and […]

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Rovnix bootkit framework updated

Jul

2012

We have been tracking the activity of the Rovnix bootkit family since April 2011. Rovnix was the first bookit family to use VBR (Volume Boot Record) infection (NTFS bootstrap code) for loading unsigned kernel-mode drivers on x64 (64 bit) platforms. The reason for exploring further is the desire of the Rovnix developers to bypass antivirus […]

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