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UPS Phishing page with malware

17

Nov

2012

For some time now, attackers have been faking popular websites like YouTube to entice users into downloading and installing malicious software disguised as plugin updates or video codecs. I rcently found a page that is using the same technique to distribute a malicious executable through a fake UPS page. The page is located at hxxp://www.retinamac.ru/UPS/. […]

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Smoke and mirrors and Win32/Phorpiex

16

Nov

2012

This month one of the families introduced to MSRT is Win32/Phorpiex, a worm that spreads via removable drives and has IRC controlled backdoor functionality. In most respects Phorpiex is another worm, with typical command and control via IRC as well as spreading via removable drives. Like many other malware it usually does this by using […]

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Don’t fall for Folstart

13

Nov

2012

We use thumb drives in different ways – usually to transfer files from one computer to another. When we create folders in thumb drives, we have a certain level of confidence that the folder isn’t malicious or doesn’t contain malware. Unfortunately, this assumption is not always true. For the month of November, we added the Folstart […]

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