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August 2012 virus activity review: growing botnets, a Java vulnerability, and new threats to Android

Sep

2012

The last summer month of the year saw a noticeable increase in activity on the part of virus makers and Internet fraudsters-pretty much in line with our expectations. Fraudsters crafting paid archive hoaxes came to incorporate malicious software such as Trojan.Mayachok.1 into their “products”. Compared with July, the number of new threats discovered by Doctor […]

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July 2012 virus activity review: the summer lull and a new threat to Mac OS

Aug

2012

July 2012 saw an increased number of system infections by blocker Trojans; at the same time, because one of the largest BackDoor.Blackenergy botnets was brought down, spam traffic declined significantly. At the end of the month, Doctor Web discovered a cross-platform Trojan, dubbed BackDoor.DaVinci.1, targeting both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It should be […]

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

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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August 2012 virus activity review: growing botnets, a Java vulnerability, and new threats to Android

July 2012 virus activity review: the summer lull and a new threat to Mac OS

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