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Win32.Rmnet.12 botnet exceeds three million hosts

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Jun

2012

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is reporting that the Win32.Rmnet.12 network, monitored by its virus analysts since September 2011, exceeded three million infected hosts in June. The Win32.Rmnet.12 file infector could pose a serious threat, because it can steal passwords stored by popular FTP clients and perform backdoor tasks. In mid-April 2012 Doctor Web reported […]

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Obfuscating Embedded Malware on Android

28

Jun

2012

The evolution of Android malware has made incontestable progress in the last few years and it often follows in the footsteps of PC-based malware, except that it happens at an accelerated pace.Often, malicious apps gain control of a system in several steps, using different modules. There is typically only one initial module which, once it […]

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Have you ever chatted with a Hacker within a virus?

18

Jun

2012

This is an impressive and first-time experience in my anti-virus career. I chatted with a hacker while debugging a virus. Yes, it’s true. It happened when the Threat team were researching key loggers for Diablo III while many game players playing this game found their accounts stolen. A sample is found in battle .net in […]

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