Posts Tagged ‘droppers’

New zero-day Windows kernel vulnerability associated with Duqu Trojan

Nov

2011

In the continuing saga of the malware known as Duqu, CrySyS Lab at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics has announced it was able to acquire a copy of the “dropper” from one of the victims. What is a dropper and what does this mean? A dropper is a term used by anti-virus researchers […]

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The Miner Botnet: Bitcoin Mining Goes Peer-To-Peer

Aug

2011

Identifying a botnet is not an easy task sometimes, especially when one gets lost in different components like droppers, infectors and other bad stuff. Some two weeks ago, Jose Nazario from Arbor Networks pointed me to a new varmint that appears to be another peer-to-peer bot. When executed, the program installs tons of stuff that […]

Category General Written by Securelist / Blog 0 Comments

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