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Backdoor.Hikit: New Advanced Persistent Threat

24

Aug

2012

Thanks to Peter Coogan for his assistance with this research.Earlier this week Mandiant released a blog which talked about a new advanced persistent threat (APT) they found while investigating a potential compromise. Symantec detects the APT in question as Backdoor.Hikit, a Trojan that enables an attacker to gain control of compromised servers from a remote […]

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Dorifel is much bigger than expected and it?s still active and growing!

10

Aug

2012

Yesterday it was a dark day for many companies in Europe, but especially in the Netherlands. A piece of malware known as Worm.Win32.Dorifel infected over 3000 machines globally, and 90% of infected users were both from public and business sector organizations based in the Netherlands. We have seen government departments and hospitals being victims. The […]

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Painting a Picture of W32.Flamer

31

May

2012

The number of different components in W32.Flamer is difficult to grasp. The threat is a well designed platform including, among other things, a Web server, a database server, and secure shell communications. It includes a scripting interpreter which allows the attackers to easily deploy updated functionality through various scripts. These scripts are split up into […]

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