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The Russian Mastermind Behind Backdoor.Proxybox

08

Oct

2012

For the past three months we have been investigating a Russian attacker serving malware to hundreds of thousands of users per year. The malware is Backdoor.Proxybox, and our investigation has revealed an entire black hat operation, giving us interesting information on the operation and size of this botnet, and leading us to information that may […]

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Digging Into the Nitol DDoS Botnet

20

Apr

2012

Nitol is a distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnet that seems to be small and not widely known. It mostly operates in China. McAfee Labs recently analyzed a few samples; we offer here the communications protocol and the Trojan’s capabilities.Most of the samples we encountered were not packed and were very easy to reverse engineer. […]

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Easy Money: Program:Win32/Pameseg (part 2)

21

Nov

2011

In the previous post, we gave an introduction to how file partnership programs work and how they make money off unsuspecting users by charging them for installing software that is actually free. In this post, we’ll walk you through a sample of these “paid archives”. The following “paid archive” simulates the appearance of the Adobe […]

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