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This month, the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) targets two families: Win32/EyeStye and Win32/Poison. EyeStye (aka ‘SpyEye’) is a family of trojans that steals information, targeting authentication data used for online banking such as passwords and digital certificates. The method it employs is called “form grabbing” which involves the interception of webform data submitted to […]

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New stolen digital certificates are used by the multi-purpose backdoor Qbot. The criminals behind the Qbot trojan are certainly not inactive. As I mentioned in a blog post earlier this month, after a quiet summer we have seen a batch of new Qbot variants. An interesting fact is that the malicious binaries were digitally signed. […]

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Microsoft is keeping it light this September after releasing 13 security bulletins last August. They released five security bulletins for this month, all of which were rated “Important”. These bulletins resolve 15 flaws found in several software. One of the bulletins addresses five vulnerabilities (MS11-072) in Microsoft Excel and affects even the newest and Mac […]

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