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Criminals fake Amazon.com to send malicious spam

Oct

2012

Doctor Web is warning users about malicious spam, allegedly from Amazon.com, that has been spreading widely since October 22. These messages prompt the recipient to download a license for Microsoft Windows; however, by clicking on the link, the user infects the system with two malicious programs simultaneously (Trojan.Necurs.97 and BackDoor.Andromeda.22). They stand by for the […]

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MSRT November ’11: Carberp

Nov

2011

We included three threat families in the November edition of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool – Win32/Carberp, Win32/Cridex and Win32/Dofoil. In this post, we discuss Win32/Carberp. The first variant of Win32/Carberp was discovered early last year. This malware has evolved from a trojan downloader that downloads an additional password stealer, such as PWS:Win32/Ldpinch, to […]

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