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Dangerous Trojan substitutes web pages

07

May

2013

Specialists from the Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web have studied one of the most widespread threats in April 2013, the Trojan Trojan.Mods.1, formerly known as Trojan.Redirect.140. According to statistics compiled by the curing utility Dr.Web CureIt!, the number of infections with this Trojan represent 3.07% of the total number of detected threats. A summary of […]

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Regents of Louisiana spreading Sirefef malware

03

May

2013

I was given a suspicious website link pointing to the website belonging to Board of Regents of State of Louisiana. This link points to the main website hxxp://regents.la.gov/, followed by /wp-content/upgrade/<numbers>.exe, where <numbers>.exe represents several random numbers, followed by EXE extension.A link looking like the following one hxxp://regents.la.gov/wp-content/upgrade/<some_numbers>.exe seems suspicious at first glance. Websites directly […]

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Mysterious Avatar rootkit with API, SDK, and Yahoo Groups for C&C communication

01

May

2013

The story of the mysterious malware detected by ESET as Win32/Rootkit.Avatar began in February 2013 when some adverts for this rootkit leaked from Russian cybercrime forums (http://pastebin.com/maPY7SS8). This information produced some heated discussions in the malware research community, however a sample of the Avatar rootkit was not found and published, until now. In this blog […]

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