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Last week we blogged about the rise of two botnets in our spam statistics and provided details of Xarvester. Today, we take a closer look at the other botnet in question: Donbot. Donbot has been around for about three years but lately has surged to the top of our spam statistics chart with masses of […]

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A few days ago, a new malware named Android/Smspacem.A!tr appeared for Android users. This malware trojans a legitimate (but controversial) application named the Holy F***ing Bible. Its malicious behavior only appeared on May 21-22 and resulted in changing the device’s wallpaper and sends out anti-Christian joke SMS messages to all the user’s phone contacts. The […]

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We were recently able to sinkhole a CARBERP command and control (C&C) server, similar to the way in which we sinkholed a ZeuS C&C in March of this year. This post will explain our findings during the said activity. The results have basically led us to conclude that CARBERP has proven once more that malware […]

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