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The Wonder of Sirefef Plunder

May

2013

Sirefef, also known as ZeroAccess, is a malware platform for receiving and running malware modules. Two prominent modules generate revenue for the cyber criminals, by mining for bitcoins and perpetrating click-fraud. Click-fraud is the deliberate misappropriation of ad revenue by generating online clicks that don’t originate from a potential customer or the rightful publisher. Click-fraud […]

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The rise in the exploitation of old PDF vulnerabilities

Apr

2013

Exploitation of software vulnerabilities continues to be a common way to infect computers with malware. Leveraging exploits allows malware authors to infect, disrupt, or take control of a computer without the user’s consent and typically without their knowledge. Exploits target vulnerabilities in operating systems, web browsers, applications, or software components that are installed on the […]

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The Conficker worm, three years and counting

Nov

2011

This week marks the third anniversary of the first in the wild samples of Conficker appearing on the internet. If you recall, Conficker is the most recent widespread network worm that began to spread to millions of unpatched PCs in 2008. The first samples detected at the virus testing service Virus Total were spotted in […]

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