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Flashfake Removal Tool and online-checking site

10

Apr

2012

After intercepting one of the domain names used by the Flashback/Flashfake Mac Trojan and setting up a special sinkhole server last Friday, we managed to gather stats on the scale and geographic distribution of the related botnet. We published information on this in our previous blog entry. We continued to intercept domain names after setting […]

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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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Tracking a Large Fake-AV Campaign

04

Apr

2012

Time for a quick blog post on an attack we've been following for several weeks now. I've seen a few news articles and blog posts that could be describing it, at least in general terms (i.e., hacked WordPress sites redirecting victims to Fake AV malware sites), so let's flesh it out a bit. (It's also […]

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