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Win32.Rmnet.12 botnet exceeds three million hosts

29

Jun

2012

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is reporting that the Win32.Rmnet.12 network, monitored by its virus analysts since September 2011, exceeded three million infected hosts in June. The Win32.Rmnet.12 file infector could pose a serious threat, because it can steal passwords stored by popular FTP clients and perform backdoor tasks. In mid-April 2012 Doctor Web reported […]

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Doctor Web has analyzed the world’s smallest banking Trojan

20

Jun

2012

Early June 2012 saw many media reports concerning the discovery of “the smallest known banking Trojan”, dubbed by security experts as Tinba (short for “tiny banker”). In this news brief, the Russian anti-virus company, Doctor Web, offers a technical overview of this threat. Written in Assembly, Tinba is a very compact piece of malware occupying […]

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Flamer: Urgent Suicide

06

Jun

2012

Late last week, some Flamer command-and-control (C&C) servers sent an updated command to several compromised computers. This command was designed to completely remove Flamer from the compromised computer. The Flamer attackers were still in control of at least a few C&C servers, which allowed them to communicate with a specific set of compromised computers. They […]

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