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North Korea Rocket Launch Used As Backdoor Lure

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Apr

2012

Using global political news as a social engineering hook is a popular cybercrime tool, particularly used to lure users into their malicious schemes. We have recently found a malicious file leveraging a noteworthy incident, one that leads to systems being infected with a backdoor. During the second of week of April, the most talked about […]

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Backdoor.R2D2: The Long Arm of the Law?

10

Oct

2011

On October 9th a German hacker group going by the name of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) published an analysis of what they claim to be government spying software. The analysis is a 20 page PDF file describing how the software works. In addition, CCC made available a copy of the software on their website […]

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W32.Virut: Using Cryptography to Prevent Domain Hijacking

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Aug

2011

W32.Virut is a Windows file infector that’s been around since 2006. It usually makes the top 10 in threat charts and therefore deserves regular scrutiny. Analysis of recent variants show that changes were made to strengthen the communication protocol between the bots and the command and control server to prevent blacklisting, sinkholing, and hijacking of […]

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