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The where and why of HLUX

15

Feb

2012

This is not the first time the HLUX botnet has been mentioned in this blog, but there are still some unanswered questions that we’ve been receiving from the media: What is the botnet’s sphere of activity? What sort of commands does it receive from malicious users? How does the bot spread? How many infected computers […]

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Extracting the fare

15

Feb

2012

When malware is found lurking on a system, quite often it isn’t acting alone. Once malware distributors have control of a system, they will do everything they can to compromise the machine and the user for maximum gain — for instance, hijacking a browser’s search results, or using rogue security software to extract payments from affected […]

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Malware Being Called From Your php.ini File

23

Dec

2011

Is your site infected with malware, and you can’t find it anywhere? It might be a good idea to search outside of your web directory, and look in your main configuration files (specially if you are on a dedicated/VPS server).We are seeing an increased number of infected sites with malicious iframes, similar to this one: […]

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