Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users about new malicious modules found in the malware that is used to create and maintain the Rmnet bot network. One of them allows attackers to disable the anti-virus software installed on the infected computers. Doctor Web’s analysts also managed to hijack a Rmnet subnetwork whose bots contain […]
Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is reporting that the Win32.Rmnet.12 network, monitored by its virus analysts since September 2011, exceeded three million infected hosts in June. The Win32.Rmnet.12 file infector could pose a serious threat, because it can steal passwords stored by popular FTP clients and perform backdoor tasks. In mid-April 2012 Doctor Web reported […]
The first month of this leap year did not offer any major surprises in terms of information security. However, Doctor Web’s anti-virus laboratory received samples of several new banking Trojan horses that turned out to be rather unusual. In addition, a new technique for distributing malicious links was discovered. Virus threats in January The file […]
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