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While monitoring a Russian underground forum recently, we came across a discussion about a Trojan for sale that can steal credit card information from machines running Windows for financial transactions and credit card payments. The malware, vSkimmer, can detect the card readers, grab all the information from the Windows machines attached to these readers, and […]

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ProliferationZeroAccess is one of the most talked and blogged [1], [2] about rootkits in recent times. It is also one of the most complex and highly prevalent rootkits we have encountered and which is still continuing to evolve. The ZeroAccess rootkit is distributed via both social engineering as well as exploitation. A recent blog post by our colleagues at McAfee, describes some […]

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The January 2012 edition of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) includes detection and removal of the Win32/Sefnit family of trojans. This trojan family moderates and redirects web browser search engine results for Bing, Yahoo! and Google. The earliest reported variant in this family can be traced back to August 2010. The installation mechanism […]

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