The Trojan.Icepol e-threat (that we’ve covered here before) is still alive and very much kicking. In fact, according to Bitdefender antimalware researcher Razvan Benchea, its developers are kicking out version after version, at rapid pace, in a (somewhat misguided) attempt to stay ahead of antivirus solutions. Bitdefender is keeping pace though, so (courtesy of the […]
Many new variants of the same bootkits are created simply to avoid detection. Bitdefender anti-malware researchers Cristian Istrate and Marius Tivadar have created a small write-up on the evolution and current status of the Mayachok bootkit: The first version started with its malicious code placed directly in the 15 sectors following the Boot Sector (variant […]
New year, same tricks, mostly because they work. That’s how we’re kicking off the new year folks. In September of 2012, Dennis, of Unmask Parasites, first wrote about rogue apache modules being injected into web servers. It has since been all the rave. It seems every week we’re handling more and more cases, from private […]
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