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Anatomy of Bamital: A Prevalent Click-fraud Trojan

14

Sep

2011

(Note: This blog was written on September 2. We decided to postpone publishing it due to an ongoing joint effort to shut down servers and block domain names. The variant studied is not the latest but accurately reflects the functionalities of the threat.) Trojan.Bamital appeared in the summer of 2010. The threat really became prevalent […]

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Are MBR infections back in fashion? (Infographic)

08

Aug

2011

A Master Boot Record (MBR) is an area of the hard disk (usually the first sector) used by a computer to perform start up operations. It is one of the first things to be read and executed by the computer hardware when a computer is powered on, even before the operating system itself. As far […]

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Win32/PSW.OnlineGames.OUM : Part 2 – Data stealing

03

Aug

2011

Win32/PSW.OnlineGames.OUM is a malware that aims to steal credentials for online games. It targets popular titles such as World of Warcraft, Star Wars Galaxy, Lineage 2 or Guild Wars. Active since 2006, it is amongst the most detected threats by ESET, taking the 7th position between January and April 2011. In our previous blog post, […]

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