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A new ransomware trojan variant with children pornography

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May

2013

We wrote about the ransomware trojan (aka BKA Trojan) and its new methods of blackmailing people to pay: claim in the name of an official institution that the user did something illegal, like storing children pornography pictures on his computer. The new variant of the BKA trojan attempts to blackmail the owners of infected computers […]

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Lock, stock and two smoking Trojans-2

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Apr

2013

It has been three years since we published Lock, stock and two smoking Trojans in our blog. The article describes the first piece of malware designed to attack users of online banking software developed by a company called BIFIT. There are now several malicious programs with similar functionality, including: Trojan-Spy.Win32.Lurk Trojan-Banker.Win32.iBank Trojan-Banker.Win32.Oris Trojan-Spy.Win32.Carberp Trojan-Banker.Win32.BifiBank Trojan-Banker.Win32.BifitAgent […]

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Boston Aftermath

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Apr

2013

While many are still in shock after the Boston Marathon bombings on 16 April, it didn’t take long for cyber criminals to abuse that tragic incident for their dirty deeds. Today we already started receiving emails containing links to malicious locations with names like “news.html”. These pages contain URLs of non-malicious youtube clips covering the […]

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