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Downloader Targets Down Under

23

Jan

2013

At the time of this blog post, and for the past five days, we have noticed an increase in spam containing malware that targets Australians. The attackers behind this malicious spam campaign appear to have no specific target in mind other than compromising a large base in Australia for reasons still unknown. Symantec Security Response […]

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Snapshot of Virut Botnet After Interruption

08

Jan

2013

In the past, we have written about the file infector known as W32.Virut. We have even provided insight into trying to shut the botnet down. Due to a recent judicial proceeding causing a temporary outage of the Virut command-and-control (C&C) server domains, we were able to gather information on the size and demographics of the […]

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Trojan.Stabuniq Found on Financial Institution Servers

21

Dec

2012

Symantec has recently encountered a threat named Trojan.Stabuniq. This Trojan was found on several servers belonging to financial institutions, including banking firms and credit unions. The Trojan has also compromised home computer users, as well as computers at security firms: Figure 1. Trojan.Stabuniq distribution by type Approximately half of unique IP addresses found with Trojan.Stabuniq belong to […]

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