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GrooveMonitor: Another Wiper Copycat?

17
Dec
2012

Yesterday the Iranian CERT made an announcement about a new piece of wiper-like malware. We detect these files as Trojan.Win32.Maya.a. This is an extremely simplistic attack. In essence, the attacker wrote some BAT files and then used a BAT2EXE tool to turn them into Windows PE files. The author seems to have used (a variant […]

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Trojan Feigns Failures to Increase Rogue Defragger Sales

16
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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