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There’s nothing old school about viruses

22

Aug

2012

Recently, we discovered a new parasitic infection virus in the wild – Win32/Floxif – which specifically targets DLL files. Most of the attacks of this threat have been observed to come from a specific geographic region. Win32/Floxif replaces 5 bytes at the entry point of the infected file with a jmp instruction, which jumps directly […]

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Complex Cyber Espionage Malware Discovered: Meet W32.Gauss

10

Aug

2012

Kaspersky Lab has discovered complex espionage malware named Gauss which steals a broad set of data from compromised computers and sends it to command-and-control servers.Symantec currently detects this latest threat as W32.Gauss and preliminary reports suggest the highest concentrations of W32.Gauss appear in the Middle East. Gauss is similar in design and function to W32.Flamer: Modular […]

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Painting a Picture of W32.Flamer

31

May

2012

The number of different components in W32.Flamer is difficult to grasp. The threat is a well designed platform including, among other things, a Web server, a database server, and secure shell communications. It includes a scripting interpreter which allows the attackers to easily deploy updated functionality through various scripts. These scripts are split up into […]

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