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Waledac Gets Cozy with Virut

15

Jan

2013

Recently, we blogged about the file-infector virus known as W32.Virut and the botnet’s return to distributing new payloads. In the blog, we estimated that the Virut botnet currently consists of 308,000 unique Virut clients active in a single day. It was also noted that Virut had been observed distributing payloads with the functionality to send out […]

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Rogue Yahoo! Messenger Cashes In on Latest YM Update

06

Dec

2012

On the heels of Yahoo!’s recent announcement of upcoming updates for the Messenger platform, certain bad guys are already taking this chance to release their own, malicious versions of Yahoo! Messenger.While doing my research, I encountered this particular file (detected by Trend Micro as TROJ_ADCLICK.TNH), which looks like a legitimate Yahoo! Messenger executable.However, when I […]

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Cross Site phishing for Amazon

28

Nov

2012

Following the expected trend of scams after the Cyber Monday, various big names in the retail industry are being now advertised in phishing attacks. One of the most interesting of these is a phishing addressing customers of Amazon. I am omitting on purpose the domain of Amazon, so read on if you want to see […]

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