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May

2013

The past year has been one of expansion for ransomware. Throughout 2012 an increasing number of blogs, tutorials and discussion forums were written to help people gain access to ransomware-locked computers without paying the ransom. The authors of Reveton ransomware are aware that the persistence of their malware on a system is not only narrowed by […]

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Don’t pay the rogue, scan with MSRT

14

May

2013

?We added three new families to this month’s Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT): Win32/FakeDef, Win32/Vicenor, and Win32/Kexqoud. In this blog, we will talk about the rogue antivirus family Win32/FakeDef. It’s not a big player in rogues’ world, but it holds its own unique characteristics. We found this family in the wild in December 2012. Initially […]

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Targeted Attack Campaign Hides Behind SSL Communication

25

Apr

2013

Using encrypted communication like Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) along with the clever use of recent news item as a social engineering lure is the perfect combination to penetrate and remain in a targeted entity’s infrastructure. It didn’t take long for targeted attacks to use last week’s Boston Marathon bombing as a bait to trick predetermined […]

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