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Malware Poses as Rainmeter Skins on deviantART

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May

2012

Recently I decided to improve my desktop with a little interactivity, and started dabbling with something called Rainmeter which displays customisable and functional skins in a variety of designs. There are entire websites where people can show off their design skills, and the general idea is to install Rainmeter, download a skin (in the .rmskin […]

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Trusted exe along with the malware

13

Apr

2012

Nowadays as more and more people are aware of malware infections, untrusted executable file is less likely to be executed by the user. Except when the executable is trusted, signed by a known company, or from a well-known software vendor for example. But even when the executable file is signed it might not be safe […]

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Tracking a Large Fake-AV Campaign

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Apr

2012

Time for a quick blog post on an attack we've been following for several weeks now. I've seen a few news articles and blog posts that could be describing it, at least in general terms (i.e., hacked WordPress sites redirecting victims to Fake AV malware sites), so let's flesh it out a bit. (It's also […]

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