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The security community has been focused on the new Java zero-day exploits that appear to have been taken from a Chinese exploit pack (known as Gondad or KaiXin) used in targeted attacks by the “Nitro” cyber-espionage campaign and then incorporated into criminal operations using the BlackHole Exploit Kit. While the connections between these developments are […]

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Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is reporting the emergence of the first cross-platform backdoor to run under Linux and Mac OS X. This malicious program is designed to steal passwords stored by a number of popular Internet applications. BackDoor.Wirenet.1 is the first such Trojan capable of running under any of these operating systems. It’s not […]

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As we see new threats arrive daily employing unique and complex capabilities, it is surprising to find a Swedish bot using a control server that was active in 2009. Generally malware authors keep changing their control servers-especially after reports about them surface-but not in this case. This network belongs to prq.se, which hosts at IP […]

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