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Recently we have noticed a new variant of backdoor malware spreading in UK networks using interesting anti-virtual machine tricks.Today’s malware uses anti-emulation and anti-debugging tricks on a daily basis to prevent malware researchers from debugging or emulating a particular sample. The vast majority of malware files still consist of simple anti-emulation tricks like calling less […]

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Malware writers have devised lots of social engineering tactics to lure users into their scheme. This time around, we saw a Trojan passing itself off as a Trend Micro component as a way to trick users into downloading and executing it.We recently encountered a file and noticed the following properties (see below). For the untrained […]

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Malware activity exploiting Autorun on Windows computers has been generating quite a few calls to ESET support lines lately, reminding us that old infection techniques seldom die and USB flash drives can still be an effective means of getting malicious code onto a computer. USB drives can be used to infect computers that automatically execute […]

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