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Flashfake Mac OS X botnet confirmed

06

Apr

2012

Earlier this week, Dr.Web reported the discovery of a Mac OS X botnet Flashback (Flashfake). According to their information, the estimated size of this botnet is more than 500, 000 infected Mac machines. We followed up with an analysis of the latest variant of this bot, Trojan-Downloader.OSX.Flashfake.ab. It is being distributed via infected websites as […]

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ZBOT Variant That Uses Domain-Generation Technique Spreads Through Facebook

23

Aug

2011

Our team recently encountered a spam run that leads to the download of a ZBOT variant that uses domain-generation technique. The spam run involves messages that arrive in users’ inboxes as a Facebook friend request notification. The message bears a link that the user must click to approve the friend request. Clicking the said link, […]

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MasterCard spam leads to Fake AV

28

Jul

2011

We’re seeing a significant “spam attached malware” campaign in the past 48 hours with different attachment MD5s. 3305f83abf31fc66fa8f588b35be8eb2 8e3331b64a5884e1ef4f4c8a3d09bc7a The username portion of the email sender is random, using a classic mis-spelling that has been consistent.Usernames are a single word, followed by a “.”, “_”, or “-“, followed by a two or three digit number. […]

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