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Snapshot of Virut Botnet After Interruption

Jan

2013

In the past, we have written about the file infector known as W32.Virut. We have even provided insight into trying to shut the botnet down. Due to a recent judicial proceeding causing a temporary outage of the Virut command-and-control (C&C) server domains, we were able to gather information on the size and demographics of the […]

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Ransomware: The Couch-Potato Vs The Backpacker

Nov

2012

Comparing variants of the same malware family can sometimes uncover interesting results. Trojan.Ransomlock, the highly profitable and prevalent malware, is one of those cases. This threat was originally spotted in Russia in 2009 but since then has been highly active in the wider world, particularly in the past few months.An in-depth analysis of this month’s […]

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Gift card mania: Fake Starbucks gift cards spreading on Facebook can lead to malware – More and more scamsters misuse popular brands to lure users to visit their websites

Feb

2012

The fake campaign is spreading via Facebook walls around the globe. The texts used in the announcements are English, which increases the chance that a large number of Facebook users accept the “bait message”. Starbucks has been used in a similar campaign already last year and they warned their customers not to believe such a […]

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