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Doctor Web exposes 550 000 strong Mac botnet

05

Apr

2012

Doctor Web-the Russian anti-virus vendor-conducted a research to determine the scale of spreading of Trojan BackDoor.Flashback that infects computers running Mac OS X. Now BackDoor.Flashback botnet encompasses more than 550 000 infected machines, most of which are located in the United States and Canada. This once again refutes claims by some experts that there are […]

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March 2012 virus activity review: political spam keeps company with new threats to Mac OS X and Android

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Apr

2012

The first spring month in 2012 was unusually “hot” with the emergence of a whole series of new threats to Windows and other platforms. In particular, attackers came up with another way to spread Trojans for Mac OS X, and new malicious applications for Android were discovered. In early March, immediately following the Russian presidential […]

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Flooders take down Counter-Strike and Half-Life servers

27

Mar

2012

Doctor Web-the Russian developer of IT security software-is notifying users of a wave of flooder applications designed to render Counter-Strike and Half-Life game servers, as well as other GoldSource servers, non-operational. Some of these malignant programs may also do harm to the criminals who use them.Competition among owners of game servers is traditionally high, especially, […]

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Doctor Web exposes 550 000 strong Mac botnet

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