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MegaPWN: major flaw or PR stunt?

06

Sep

2013

Since an article on MegaPWN got slashdoted on Tuesday, the now infamous tool by software developer Michael Koziarski gathered a significant amount of attention. As often, comments were a mix of “this guy didn’t invent anything” (usually laid in a more sarcastic form) and “this is interesting” (usually laid in a more panicked form, involving […]

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MSRT December ’12 – Phdet

12

Dec

2012

Phdet is the family which has been added to the December 2012 release of the Malicious Software Removal Tool. Phdet is a family of backdoor trojans that have the ability to perform distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The bot can be found online, going by the formal name of “Black Energy”. The DDoS bot has […]

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Blackhole 2.0 Exploited to Push Advertisements

20

Sep

2012

The popular Blackhole Exploit Kit has gained a lot of media attention recently when its author announced the imminent release of version 2.0, boasting a list of new interesting features. Recently we were very surprised when we found a website hosting what is supposed to be version 2.0 of the Blackhole Exploit Kit. Naturally, we […]

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