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The January 2012 edition of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) includes detection and removal of the Win32/Sefnit family of trojans. This trojan family moderates and redirects web browser search engine results for Bing, Yahoo! and Google. The earliest reported variant in this family can be traced back to August 2010. The installation mechanism […]

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[More news from my colleagues in Russia on their analysis of an interesting item of bank-targeting malware.] This month we discovered new information on a new modification in the Win32/TrojanDownloader.Carberp trojan family. This trojan is notorious as one of the most widely spread malicious programs in Russia,  stealing money from remote banking systems and primarily […]

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Driver The driver is the first component of Duqu to be loaded in the system. As we discovered, the driver and other components of malware are installed with a dropper exploiting a 0-day vulnerability (CVE-2011-3402). The driver is registered in the HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\ registry path. The exact name of the registry key varies in different versions […]

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