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Expecting an online booking or package delivery confirmation? Just make sure to avoid these fake email messages serving BKDR_KULUOZ.PFG.This backdoor was first seen in the wild around April to June of 2012 and a part of a well-known botnet. However, we have recently been noticing several spam variants carrying this malware, like the one below:Figure […]

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In his summary of New Year predictions by security researchers here at ESET, Stephen Cobb pointed to expanded efforts by malware authors to target the Linux operating system. Looks like that might be right: A blog post published by Sucuri yesterday describes a backdoored version of the SSH daemon discovered on compromised servers. Interestingly, this […]

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Phdet is the family which has been added to the December 2012 release of the Malicious Software Removal Tool. Phdet is a family of backdoor trojans that have the ability to perform distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The bot can be found online, going by the formal name of “Black Energy”.  The DDoS bot has […]

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