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Of Spam and Speeding

19

Aug

2011

Our engineers over at the AV Labs have spotted recently a deluge of spam about a “traffic ticket” that purports to come from a state department in New York. The said spam has a compressed file attachment that, once extracted, contains a file that bears the icon of a normal Adobe .PDF file. Mimicing file […]

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Quickpost: Blocking and Detecting a Teensy Dropper

14

Jul

2011

A Teensy dropper presents itself as a keyboard (HID) to a PC and this is how it can be used to drop files even if you don’t allow removable drives. You can prevent the installation of new HIDs, but this is an issue when you need to replace keyboards or mice. Irongeek has a good […]

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MAX++ sets its sights on x64 platforms

24

May

2011

In the last few days experts at Kaspersky Lab have detected new samples of the malicious program MAX++ (aka ZeroAccess). This Trojan first achieved notoriety for using advanced rootkit technology to hide its presence in a system. Back then, MAX++ only worked on x86 platforms; now it is capable of functioning on x64 systems! Computers […]

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