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Dyre infections surge, variants spread through Windows exploit

12

Jul

2015

Dyre infections have surged and new variants of the banking Trojan are being spread through exploitation of a Microsoft Windows bug, CVE-2015-0057, which has a patch, two security firms have found. According to Bitdefender, thousands of users received an archive housing a malicious .exe file, which purportedly came from a tax consultant requesting additional information […]

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Downloader.Liftoh Cousin to W32.Phopifas?

24

May

2013

Downloader.Liftoh is a Trojan horse detected by Symantec that downloads malware onto the compromised computer without the user noticing.A new variant of this threat, discovered in early May, was identified in some Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America. This variant of Downloader.Liftoh sends messages in Spanish instead of English. The threat is similar to W32.Phopifas which […]

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Don’t pay the rogue, scan with MSRT

14

May

2013

?We added three new families to this month’s Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT): Win32/FakeDef, Win32/Vicenor, and Win32/Kexqoud. In this blog, we will talk about the rogue antivirus family Win32/FakeDef. It’s not a big player in rogues’ world, but it holds its own unique characteristics. We found this family in the wild in December 2012. Initially […]

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