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Reversal of fortune: Attempts to disguise file names

15

Sep

2012

Social engineering tactics are vast and varied, and we see all sorts of methods being used on a daily basis by malware authors, in their attempts to compromise your machine. One such method that we see often is malware being distributed as an alluring or enticing link or file, and we know that some users […]

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Modified Enfal Variants Compromised 874 Systems

14

Sep

2012

Modified versions of the Enfal malware, which figured prominently in the LURID attacks, were seen to have infected more than 800 systems worldwide. Enfal variants are known to communicate to specific servers that gives potential attackers access and even full control of infected systems.We recently uncovered several attacks that used a modified version of Enfal, […]

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The Shamoon Attacks Continue

04

Sep

2012

Symantec Security Response has been investigating further reports of infections of W32.Disstrack, the threat used in the Shamoon attacks. W32.Disttrack is a highly destructive threat that destroys files and the master boot record (MBR) of the infected machine, causing maximum disruption.W32.Disttrack uses a hardcoded “wiping date” which is read from a variably named “.pnf” file […]

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