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How hackers hijack your Facebook photos?

03

Aug

2011

THINK twice before uploading your holiday pictures to Facebook – you could be helping someone to steal information from your computer. A botnet called Stegobot was created by an Indian origin scientist to show how easy it would be for a bad guy to hijack Facebook photos to create a secret communication channel that is […]

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TDSS: botnets, Kademilia and collective consciousness

28

Jun

2011

The TDSS botnet, now in its 4th generation, is seriously sophisticated malware, which is why we’ve spent so much time writing about it: the revision of the paper The Evolution of TDL: Conquering x64 that will be up on the white papers page shortly runs to 54 pages and includes some highly technical analysis, including the detail on […]

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Yesterday’s Virus Hoax is Today’s Fake Utility

25

May

2011

One of the (few) blessings of having been so long in this industry is that I remember a time when most malware was viral and Trojans were rare: so rare, in fact, that there was at one time a notorious "dirty dozen" set of Trojans. At around the same time, there were innumerable hoaxes describing malware with […]

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