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Technical paper – Fake anti-virus: The journey from Trojan to a persistent threat

16

May

2012

Fake anti-virus (also known as scareware) has grown over the years into a persistent and prevalent threat and is now one of the largest families of malware that we’ve seen in recent history. In this new technical paper from SophosLabs, threat researcher Jagadeesh Chandraiah studies the evolution of fake anti-virus over the last three and […]

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Are you having a (Mac) Flashback?

23

Mar

2012

On Monday, I provided steps on how to avoid your Mac being compromised by the Flashback trojan. Today I will provide information on how to locate a Flashback infection. To better understand the steps below, it is better to also know a bit about Flashback. It’s an OS X malware family that modifies the content […]

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Rovnix Reloaded: new step of evolution

23

Feb

2012

[More research from our colleagues in Russia] In the beginning of February we found a new modification of our “old friend” Win32/Rovnix (the dropper detected as Win32/Rovnix.B trojan), which is the first bootkit using VBR (Volume Boot Record) infection. An interesting fact is that Rovnix bootkit components were used in Win32/Carberp, the most widely spread […]

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