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We’ve just come across an IRC controlled backdoor that is enables the infected machine to become a bot for Distributed Denial of Service attacks. The interesting part about it is that it’s a Mach-O binary – targeting Mac OS X. ESET’s research team compared this to samples in our malware collection and discovered that this […]

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21
Oct
2011

Duqu contains a backdoor that steals information. Infostealers need to send the stolen info back somehow. Careful infostealers try to make the transfer look innocent in case somebody is watching network traffic. Duqu hides it’s traffic by making it look like normal web traffic. Duqu connects to a server (206.183.111.97 aka canoyragomez.rapidns.com, which used to […]

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20
Oct
2011

This is an active investigation by Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research & Analysis Team. We will be updating this FAQ document as necessary. What exactly is Duqu? How is it related to Stuxnet? Duqu is a sophisticated Trojan which seems to have been written by the same people who created the infamous Stuxnet worm. Its main […]

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