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Travnet Botnet Steals Huge Amount of Sensitive Data

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Apr

2013

In a McAfee Labs blog by my colleague Vikas Taneja last month, he discussed high-level functioning in the malware Travnet. Since then we have continued to analyze different samples and now classify Travnet as a botnet rather than a Trojan because of the presence of control code, and the malware’s ability to wait for further […]

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Android Trojan Found in Targeted Attack

26

Mar

2013

In the past, we’ve seen targeted attacks against Tibetan and Uyghur activists on Windows and Mac OS X platforms. We’ve documented several interesting attacks (A Gift for Dalai Lamas Birthday and Cyber Attacks Against Uyghur Mac OS X Users Intensify) which used ZIP files as well as DOC, XLS and PDF documents rigged with exploits. […]

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W32/XDocCrypt.a Infects Executable and Doc Files

11

Aug

2012

We have seen malware that infects executables operate so that the malicious code runs first, and is then followed by the execution of host file. The malware XDocCrypt takes this a step further. Besides infecting portable executable files, it also infects Microsoft Word and Excel files. In an infected file, the malware body sits at […]

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