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Flashfake Mac OS X botnet confirmed

06

Apr

2012

Earlier this week, Dr.Web reported the discovery of a Mac OS X botnet Flashback (Flashfake). According to their information, the estimated size of this botnet is more than 500, 000 infected Mac machines. We followed up with an analysis of the latest variant of this bot, Trojan-Downloader.OSX.Flashfake.ab. It is being distributed via infected websites as […]

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Ice IX: not cool at all

14

Sep

2011

My colleague Jorge Mieres recently found a C&C server of a botnet based on a malicious program called Ice IX. As announced on several user forums, Ice IX is a bot created using the source code of ZeuS 2.0.8.9, which became publicly available in May. The author of the new bot says the program includes […]

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ZBOT Variant That Uses Domain-Generation Technique Spreads Through Facebook

23

Aug

2011

Our team recently encountered a spam run that leads to the download of a ZBOT variant that uses domain-generation technique. The spam run involves messages that arrive in users’ inboxes as a Facebook friend request notification. The message bears a link that the user must click to approve the friend request. Clicking the said link, […]

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