family description | DataProtectionCenter.com

?Ramnit – The renewed bot in town

15

Mar

2013

Ramnit is one of the most prevalent threat families still active in the wild today. Two years ago, we talked about the infection method it uses in the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) blog Little red Ramnit: My what big eyes you have, Grandma! by Scott Molenkamp. We are still keeping an eye on this […]

Category General Written by Microsoft Malware Protection Center 0 Comments

MSRT February 2013 – Sirefef

13

Feb

2013

The family added to the February release of the Malicious Software Removal Tool is Win32/Sirefef. Win32/Sirefef is a highly prevalent complex multi-component family which continues to evolve. The payload for current variants may include such actions as modifying browser search engine results, generating pay-per-click revenue and performing Bitcoin mining on an affected computer. The first detection […]

Category General Written by Microsoft Malware Protection Center 0 Comments

MSRT September ’12 – Medfos, hijacking your daily search

11

Sep

2012

In this month’s Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) release, we add Win32/Medfos. This is a fairly new family, but it is continuously gaining big detection numbers around the world, especially in the United States. The initial Win32/Medfos infection is usually a downloader component that is distributed in different ways; for example, by visiting a […]

Category General Written by Microsoft Malware Protection Center 0 Comments

The Latest in IT Security

Posts Tagged ‘family description’

?Ramnit – The renewed bot in town

MSRT September ’12 – Medfos, hijacking your daily search

Categories

Featured

Archives

Latest Comments

About Us

Contact Us