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Nasty Trojan infects 100 hosts in sixty minutes

08

Apr

2013

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web has gained control over a botnet created with BackDoor.Bulknet.739 that, on average, is infecting as many as 100 computers per hour. The Trojan facilitates the sending of massive volumes of spam from infected computers. BackDoor.Bulknet.739 mainly targets machines located in Italy, France, Turkey, the USA, Mexico and Thailand. The first […]

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Trojans and other threats in March

02

Apr

2013

According to Doctor Web analysts, a temporary decline and subsequent upsurge in the spread of Trojan.Hosts programs was one of March’s most distinct trends. The outbreak reached its peak in early 2013. March was also marked by a growing number of encoder Trojan infections and the emergence of adware Trojans for Mac OS X. So […]

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Carberp: the never ending story

25

Mar

2013

The Carberp cybercrime group was one of the first groups to make massive use of specialist malware designed to target remote banking systems and fraud operations against major Russian banks. Many members of major Carberp groups have already been arrested (All Carberp botnet organizers arrested), but the Carberp malware family is still active and evolving. […]

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