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Cool-er Than Blackhole?

16

Nov

2012

Exploit kits are still making rounds, nothing new there. But in addition to the popular Blackhole Exploit Kit, a new kid on the block emerges which has been dubbed as Cool Exploit Kit.It’s very interesting to see how these two actually fare against each other.Lately, we’re seeing that Blackhole updated to the latest PluginDetect version […]

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JACKSBOT Has Some Dirty Tricks up Its Sleeves

31

Oct

2012

Contrary to initial reports, JACKSBOT may not be as low risk as initially thought. We noted some JACKSBOT infection in the wild, indicating that the people behind this multiplatform malware are saving their best tricks for last.We analyzed the JACKSBOT backdoor family (specific detection name JAVA_JACKSBOT.A) that arrives as a Java application. Because it is […]

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Don’t worry if your system is infected – just wait for 70 years

01

Oct

2012

It is quite usual to have a license expiration date built into commercial software, but what about malware? Is it common for disabled malware to repair itself and resurface? Well, it’s definitely not common, but as you will see in this post, some cases do exist. The sample we will look at belongs to the […]

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