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Flamer Used QA Module to Thwart Antivirus

Jul

2012

“Customer Feedback” is always important, even when they are victims of state-sponsored attacks Although the Flamer Trojan has “committed suicide” quite a while ago, we continue the malware forensics saga with a new episode. Today, we will be describing a less-documented feature of Flamer called advnetcfg.ocx – a module that acts both as an antivirus […]

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Malware Targets Demonstrators Opposed to Putin’s Re-Election

Mar

2012

Contributor: Pavlo Prodanchuk A wave of spam emails promoting a rally against newly elected president Vladimir Putin of Russia began around March 5. An attachment purporting to contain details of an upcoming anti-Putin demonstration accompanied email subjects with varying call-to-action lines: “All to demonstration” “Instructions what to do” “Meeting for the equal elections” Here is […]

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Combating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks in Brazil, Latin America, and Everywhere Else

Nov

2011

One of the most disruptive attacks to deal with in today’s threat landscape is the distributed denial of service attack, often called DDoS. Using the resources of many other computers, an attacker can focus a vast amount of packets and power at a single resource and effectively knock it offline for as long a time […]

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