You probably think the person or people behind the Boston Marathon bombing are reprehensible scum? Well, meet their cousins – the slimebags behind the latest malware-distributing spam run we have seen ramp-up overnight. Members of the AVG Web Threats Research team have discovered spam messages using the Boston Marathon explosion to lure potential victims to […]
This fake HP email has a ZIP attachment, containing an HTML file that leads to malware. The ZIP format is presumably being used to get past virus scanners. Subject: Re: Scan from a Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 20382282 Attached document was scanned and sent to you using a Hewlett-Packard NetJet 280904SL. SENT BY : ETSUKO PAGES : […]
In 1999, a new virus, Win32/Crypto, was discovered. It was using brute-force attacks against its encryption key to decrypt its body. Today, in 2011, variants of Win32/Alureon are bringing this old-school technique back to life, with some extra naughtiness, as you will see below. While working recently on different Win32/Alureon samples, we noticed some behaviour […]
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