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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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Ransomware: Extorting Money by Panic and Pressure

25

Dec

2012

We have blogged in the past about Ransomware being a growing menace and that ONE SHOULD NOT PAY RANSOM if affected. Ransomware has now raised its ugly head up once again. Writers of Trojan.Ransomlock.G (a.k.a. Reveton) have updated their locking screen to induce panic and to blackmail the user into paying ransom.Recently, blogger Kafeine found […]

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Unexpected reboot: Necurs

08

Dec

2012

Necurs is a prevalent threat in the wild at the moment – variants of Necurs were reported on 83,427 unique machines during the month of November 2012. Necurs is mostly distributed by drive-by download. This means that you might be silently infected by Necurs when you visit websites that have been compromised by exploit kits such as Blackhole. So […]

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