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An Overview of Messaging Botnets

09

Mar

2013

In the quarterly McAfee Threats Reports we offer our readers some charts on the prevalence of messaging botnets. For the last quarter of 2012, we announced the continuing decline in global messaging botnet infections as well as in former leaders Festi and Cutwail (see page 23).In this blog, I will detail the evolution of the […]

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MiniDuke – Even Older than we Thought

03

Mar

2013

Bitdefender antimalware researchers have found yet another sample of the MiniDuke malware, only this one is dated June 20, 2011, the oldest found so far. The malware sample is a small executable that drops and loads a .dll. The dll is a little bit different from more recent versions, it has many imports, just as […]

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Linux.Sshdkit attacks Linux servers

22

Feb

2013

The growing number of incidents involving compromised Linux web servers led Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web to conduct its own investigation into matter. Its analysts found that a Trojan horse, dubbed Linux.Sshdkit by Dr.Web, was sometimes being employed to steal passwords on servers running Linux. The malware is a library file available for 32- and […]

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