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Printer Madness: W32.Printlove Video

03

Jul

2012

Recently we have received several customer issues about garbage being printed on their network printers. During our investigation, we came across a new worm that causes the garbage print jobs. Symantec detects this worm as W32.Printlove. W32.Printlove uses the Microsoft Windows Print Spooler Service Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE 2010-2729) discovered in 2010 to spread […]

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W32.Shadesrat (Blackshades) Author Arrested?

29

Jun

2012

In a global sting operation carried out by the FBI, over 24 people have been arrested, including an individual named Michael Hogue, a.k.a. “xVisceral”. According to an underground forum post, xVisceral is involved in the Blackshades project, at the very least as a project manager. It is likely, however, that this Remote Access Tool (RAT) […]

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DDoS Attacks: The Zemra Bot

27

Jun

2012

Symantec has become aware of a new Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) crimeware bot known as “Zemra” and detected by Symantec as Backdoor.Zemra. Lately, this threat has been observed performing denial-of-service attacks against organizations with the purpose of extortion. Zemra first appeared on underground forums in May 2012 at a cost of ?100.Figure 1. Zemra […]

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