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How fast fingerprinting of OLE2 files can lead to efficient malware detection

13

Oct

2011

At last week’s Virus Bulletin 2011 conference Paul Baccas and Stephen Edwards from SophosLabs presented their research paper “Fast fingerprinting of OLE2 files: Heuristics for detection of exploited OLE2 files based on specification non-conformance”. They may win the prize for the longest title, but what does it mean? OLE2 is a container format synonymous with […]

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World Cup DDoS blackmailer sentenced to jail

16

Jun

2011

A court in Dusseldorf, Germany, has convicted a man who extorted money out of online gambling websites in the run-up to the 2010 Football World Cup in South Africa. The Frankfurt man, who has not been identified, successfully blackmailed three online betting sites (and attempted to extort money from three others) by threatening them with […]

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Eastern Europe malware trip to connect PC and Mac fake AV

04

Jun

2011

It all started with a fake Firefox installer from: firefox.dl-networks.in/firefox_4.0.1.exe This is a server located in the Ukraine, running Apache/2.2.17. Firefox 4 is indeed the latest version of the browser: Except the bad guys got the icon wrong… this one is for CCleaner. Here is the VirusTotal report (8/43). Upon installation the malware connects to: […]

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