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Last week we reported on a particular piece of malware-detected as Backdoor.Rabasheeta-that is making a stir in the Japanese media.  There are hundreds, if not thousands, of back door malware, but in the last week Japanese media and social networks have been full of discussions about this particular malware. Symantec has discovered the dropper.DropperFigure 1. […]

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ESET – Olmasco (also known as SST, MaxSS)  is a modification of the TDL4 bootkit family that we’ve been aware of since summer 2011. We started to track a new wave of activity from a new Olmasco dropper at the end of this summer. This bootkit family was the second to use VBR (Volume Boot […]

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For the past three months we have been investigating a Russian attacker serving malware to hundreds of thousands of users per year. The malware is Backdoor.Proxybox, and our investigation has revealed an entire black hat operation, giving us interesting information on the operation and size of this botnet, and leading us to information that may […]

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