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The Andromeda botnet – first spotted in late 2011 – has recently resurfaced. This threat arrives via a familiar means: spammed messages with malicious attachments or links to compromised websites hosting Blackhole Exploit Kit (BHEK) code. Here is one spam message we saw recently:Figure 1. Sample spammed messageAndromeda itself is highly modular, and can incorporate […]

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We were alerted to reports of a Crisis/MORCUT malware that supposedly spreads on VMware virtual machines. Our previous post about Crisis/MORCUT cites that it is a backdoor found to specifically target Mac OSX systems. This time around, the Crisis/MORCUT we have on our hands runs in Windows, and interestingly, mounts on virtual disks.Currently, arrival for […]

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Over the past few days, we have been analyzing a potential new threat that has been operating discreetly for at least two years. We were contacted about this threat by Crysys who have released their own analysis. (The threat is referred to by CrySys as 'Skywiper'). There are indications that W32.Flamer is also the same […]

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