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Trojan.Winlock.5490 extorts money from French users

27

Jan

2012

The Russian anti-virus vendor Doctor Web warns Internet users of the new malignant program that blocks access to Windows. This Trojan horse has been dubbed Trojan.Winlock.5490. The malicious application poses a danger to systems running Microsoft Windows with French locale set as default system language.Otherwise Trojan.Winlock.5490, written in C, won’t run in a system with […]

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Android.Arspam.1 distributes political spam

26

Dec

2011

Doctor Web-a Russian developer of IT security software-warns users of a new threat to mobile devices running the operating system Google Android. The malicious program discovered earlier by another anti-virus vendor has been added into the Dr.Web virus databases as Android.Arspam.1. The Trojan horse is designed to perform unauthorised massive SMS sending.Android.Arspam.1 is embedded into […]

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New Trojan for Mac OS X in the Pirate Bay

07

Dec

2011

A trojan horse for Mac OS X is not a common phenomonon, let alone a Trojan horse that steals user passwords and mines bitcoins. The Russian anti-virus vendor Doctor Web warns users of a new threat, Trojan.Merin.3 (aka OSX/DevilRobber) that steals data (including financial information) from Mac OS X systems.Doctor Web’s virus analysts discovered infected […]

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