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Pramro and Sality – two PEs in a pod

22

Feb

2012

?The second of the families added to the February release of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) is Win32/Pramro. Win32/Pramro is a family of trojans that can act as a SOCKS proxy on an infected computer. In this case, this proxy may be used to relay spam and HTTP traffic. Detection was first added […]

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TDL4 Worm Component Employs Bitcoin Mining

28

Sep

2011

In the past we’ve reported a couple of attacks involving malware that turns affected systems into Bitcoin miners, and we also said that cybercriminals will increasingly do so in the future. Recently we encountered another malware -a familiar and known malware family – that turns the system into a Bitcoin miner.TDL4 is a well known […]

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New spam sources in the making

13

Sep

2011

After the Pushdo/Cutwail, Bredolab and Rustock botnets were taken offline, the geography of spam sources underwent some major changes. In particular, from September 2010 the US, for a long time the leading spam distributor, began to lose ground. For several months now it hasn’t even made it into the Top 10 leading sources of spam […]

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