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MSRT September ’12 – Medfos, hijacking your daily search

11

Sep

2012

In this month’s Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) release, we add Win32/Medfos. This is a fairly new family, but it is continuously gaining big detection numbers around the world, especially in the United States. The initial Win32/Medfos infection is usually a downloader component that is distributed in different ways; for example, by visiting a […]

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The end of DNS-Changer

06

Jul

2012

FBI’s “Operation Ghost Click” was discussed earlier by my colleague Kurt here and here and now it comes to an end. Next Monday, 9th of July, at 06:00 (MEZ) the temporary DNS-servers setup by FBI will be shut down. But still there are still thousands of infected machines – one can wonder, what will happen […]

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W32.Flamer: Microsoft Windows Update Man-in-the-Middle

05

Jun

2012

Flamer has a variety of ways of spreading on the local network. One of the methods is to hijack clients performing Windows Update. Three Flamer apps are involved in delivering the rogue update: SNACK, MUNCH, and GADGET. When Internet Explorer starts, by default it will automatically search for proxy configuration settings. This happens through the […]

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