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A tale of grannies, Chinese herbs, Tom Cruise, Alureon and steganography

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Sep

2011

I’ve been monitoring the development of a particular strain of Alureon since the start of August this year. The installer (detected as Trojan:Win32/Alureon.FE – cc9a8000f80b6aecee30375e3277292a725acbfb) is easily distinguishable from more prevalent strains such as Trojan:Win32/Alureon.DX by the use of PE resources to store each component. This particular installer is often downloaded by variants of Trojan:Win32/Fakesysdef […]

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W32.Virut: Using Cryptography to Prevent Domain Hijacking

24

Aug

2011

W32.Virut is a Windows file infector that’s been around since 2006. It usually makes the top 10 in threat charts and therefore deserves regular scrutiny. Analysis of recent variants show that changes were made to strengthen the communication protocol between the bots and the command and control server to prevent blacklisting, sinkholing, and hijacking of […]

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Microsoft has $250,000 for you – some strings attached

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Jul

2011

Recently published on Microsoft’s Technet Blogs site, nestling between Haiku #154 and Bloom’s Taxonomy for Learning Objectives, you will find an unassumingly erudite, if lawyerly, posting. You probably want to read it. It could be worth US$250,000. To get all the money for yourself, there are, of course, conditions. You will need to rat out […]

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