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Malware Steals Image Files from Systems

Nov

2012

It appears that information theft has taken a new form: we’ve found a malware that steals image files from all drives of an affected system and then sends them to a remote FTP server.Detected as TSPY_PIXSTEAL.A, this particular malware opens a hidden command line and copies all .JPG, .JPEG, and .DMP files. Both .JPG and […]

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Monkif Botnet Hides Commands in JPEGs

Jul

2012

As we see new threats arrive daily employing unique and complex capabilities, it is surprising to find a Swedish bot using a control server that was active in 2009. Generally malware authors keep changing their control servers-especially after reports about them surface-but not in this case. This network belongs to prq.se, which hosts at IP […]

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