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Don’t write it, read it instead!

22

Jun

2011

The bootkit malware Trojan:Win32/Popureb.E has made some changes in its code compared to previous samples (specifically, Trojan:Win32/Popureb.B), and now it introduces a driver component to prevent the malicious MBR and other malicious data stored as disk sectors from being changed. The driver component protects the data in an unusual way – by hooking the DriverStartIo […]

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Japan Outlaws Creating Malware

22

Jun

2011

Last June 17, 2011, the Japanese parliament approved a revised proposal for criminal law against creating and keeping malware, also known as the cybercrime law. The key point about this revised criminal law is that malware writers will be penalized if malware was created and distributed under the following circumstances: Without a legitimate reason With […]

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Trojan Feigns Failures to Increase Rogue Defragger Sales

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May

2011

Have you ever had a hard drive failure? I have. It happen to me in my first ever computer job. I was about six months in, working on a small part of a big project, and we had a milestone in two days when it happened. I can remember the pit in my stomach as […]

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