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Unexpected reboot: Necurs

07

Dec

2012

Necurs is a prevalent threat in the wild at the moment – variants of Necurs were reported on 83,427 unique machines during the month of November 2012. Necurs is mostly distributed by drive-by download. This means that you might be silently infected by Necurs when you visit websites that have been compromised by exploit kits such as Blackhole. So […]

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Ransomware: The Couch-Potato Vs The Backpacker

30

Nov

2012

Comparing variants of the same malware family can sometimes uncover interesting results. Trojan.Ransomlock, the highly profitable and prevalent malware, is one of those cases. This threat was originally spotted in Russia in 2009 but since then has been highly active in the wider world, particularly in the past few months.An in-depth analysis of this month’s […]

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A Targeted Attack Against The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

30

Nov

2012

Several days ago, a number of leaked documents from the “Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs” were published on “Par:AnoIA”, a new wikileaks-style site managed by the Anonymous collective.One of our users notified us of a suspicious document in the archive which is detected by our anti-malware products as Exploit.JS.Pdfka.ffw. He was also kind enough to […]

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