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Hydraq: Past Year in Review

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Mar

2012

Trojan.Hydraq is a piece of malware that we first saw in early 2010. It was a threat that got a lot of media attention—especially since the targets it chose were very high profile organizations. It's been a couple of years since we mentioned it so we thought we'd provide an update on its activity since […]

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MSRT March 2012: Breaking bad

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Mar

2012

This month, the MMPC added Win32/Dorkbot to the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool along with detections for the threats Win32/Hioles, Win32/Pluzoks and Win32/Yeltminky. Win32/Dorkbot is described as an IRC-based botnet and a worm, a backdoor with rootkit capability and a password stealer. Despite using a very simple IRC protocol to communicate with the command and […]

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Not just a one-trick PonyDOS

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Mar

2012

Reversing the crypto used by the PonyDOS attack bot This blog post is the third installment in our ongoing series of articles exploring the crypto systems commonly found in various DDoS malware families. In previous articles we covered the reversing of the Armageddon and Khan DDoS bots; today we will cover a new malware family […]

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