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Nasty Trojan infects 100 hosts in sixty minutes

Apr

2013

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web has gained control over a botnet created with BackDoor.Bulknet.739 that, on average, is infecting as many as 100 computers per hour. The Trojan facilitates the sending of massive volumes of spam from infected computers. BackDoor.Bulknet.739 mainly targets machines located in Italy, France, Turkey, the USA, Mexico and Thailand. The first […]

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Trojan.Proxy.23012 – universal spam machine

Oct

2012

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users about the malicious program Trojan.Proxy.23012, which is helping attackers carry out mass spam mailings. This Trojan has a number of features that distinguish it from other malware. Trojan.Proxy.23012 is downloaded to infected computers by other malicious programs such as Trojan.PWS.Panda.2395. The Trojan executable file is compressed with […]

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Valentine’s coupon

Feb

2012

It may not be in the same league as Christmas and New Year, but with every year Valentine’s Day is being exploited more and more by spammers. In the week before it is celebrated this year Valentine’s spam accounted for 0.3% of all spam. We registered the first Valentine’s spam as far back as 14 […]

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