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Bank phishing malware bypasses DNS to trick the web browser

May

2012

by Dave Michmerhuizen & Luis Chapetti – Security Researchers Bank phishing is a world-wide problem, but nowhere is it more widespread or sophisticated than in Latin America. Consumers throughout the Southern Hemisphere are constantly bombarded by web links and spam attachments which present convincing displays that aim to steal usernames, passwords and other authentication tokens. […]

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Info Stealer Poses as Google Chrome Installer

May

2012

We recently found some suspicious looking URLs which suggest that a malicious file named ChromeSetup.exe is hosted in domains like Facebook and Google. The finding, which we were able to flag during our analysis of data processed by the Trend MicroT Smart Protection NetworkT definitely caught our attention. Looking at data from the Smart Protection […]

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MSRT March 2012: Breaking bad

Mar

2012

This month, the MMPC added Win32/Dorkbot to the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool along with detections for the threats Win32/Hioles, Win32/Pluzoks and Win32/Yeltminky. Win32/Dorkbot is described as an IRC-based botnet and a worm, a backdoor with rootkit capability and a password stealer. Despite using a very simple IRC protocol to communicate with the command and […]

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