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[News from my colleagues in Russia, Aleksandr Matrosov and Eugene Rodionov.]Recently, we had a stroke of luck: our TDL tracker picked up a brand new plugin for TDL4 kad.dll (Win32/Olmarik.AVA) which we haven’t seen previously. It took some time to find out what it is intended to do. After some preliminary analysis we discovered that […]

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The Android malware DroidKungFu reports back to the following URLs: http://[REMOVED]fu-android.com:8511/search/rpty.php http://[REMOVED]fu-android.com:8511/search/getty.php http://[REMOVED]fu-android.com:8511/search/sayhi.php A whois on the corresponding IP address replies with the following most peculiar information: it looks like the IP address belongs to a mobile device (either a phone, or a tablet, or a computer with a 2G/3G connection…) of a well-known Chinese […]

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It can be recalled that Mariposa made headlines when three alleged operators were arrested in Spain prior to the supposed shutdown of the botnet itself. This incident was followed by a sudden and drastic decrease in Mariposa-related incidents, which was very much understandable because the botnet was reported to have already been taken down. Lately […]

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