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An Overview of Messaging Botnets

Mar

2013

In the quarterly McAfee Threats Reports we offer our readers some charts on the prevalence of messaging botnets. For the last quarter of 2012, we announced the continuing decline in global messaging botnet infections as well as in former leaders Festi and Cutwail (see page 23).In this blog, I will detail the evolution of the […]

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Win32/Gapz: New Bootkit Technique

Dec

2012

In the last couple of years a number of new bootkits have appeared in the wild targeting the Microsoft Windows platform. Among the most prominent examples are TDL4, Olmasco and Rovnix. These each employ different ways of infecting the system by means of modifying either the MBR (Master Boot Record) or the VBR/IPL (Volume Boot […]

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Korean gaming malware – served 3 ways

Dec

2012

Recently, we’ve seen similar activities being performed by different malware that monitor online Korean applications. Mostly, the applications they monitor are card games, such as those in Figure 1. Figure 1: Examples of online Korean games that are being monitored. (Source: http://www.hangame.com) The following applications are monitored if found running on the system: LASPOKER.EXE […]

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