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Malware compromising BIOS and other September virus events

03

Oct

2011

September 2011 was relatively quiet and did not bring any major burst of viral activity; apparently, malware makers, back from summer vacation, decided to devote themselves to more pragmatic pursuits. However, the month did see the discovery of a Trojan horse of unique architecture capable of infecting BIOS. Also a new backdoor for Mac OS […]

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Ice IX: not cool at all

14

Sep

2011

My colleague Jorge Mieres recently found a C&C server of a botnet based on a malicious program called Ice IX. As announced on several user forums, Ice IX is a bot created using the source code of ZeuS 2.0.8.9, which became publicly available in May. The author of the new bot says the program includes […]

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Trojan.Bioskit.1 infects BIOS

12

Sep

2011

In the first days of September a remarkable malware sample fell nto the hands of Doctor Web’s virus analysts. At first it seemed that the malicious program dubbed Trojan.Bioskit.1 carried a standard Trojan horse payload to infect the MBR and download something from the network. However, a more detailed analysis revealed that it also incorporated […]

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