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Android Trojan Found in Targeted Attack

26

Mar

2013

In the past, we’ve seen targeted attacks against Tibetan and Uyghur activists on Windows and Mac OS X platforms. We’ve documented several interesting attacks (A Gift for Dalai Lamas Birthday and Cyber Attacks Against Uyghur Mac OS X Users Intensify) which used ZIP files as well as DOC, XLS and PDF documents rigged with exploits. […]

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New BackDoor.Butirat generates names of control servers

24

Jan

2013

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users that a new backdoor has been found in large numbers in the wild. Dubbed BackDoor.Butirat.245, the program features a new routine to generate names of control servers to connect to. The most probable rationale behind this feature is to keep the malware operational as long as possible […]

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Black.Energy botnet reborn

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Jan

2013

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users about another malicious program of the BackDoor.BlackEnergy family. In July 2012 many mass media outlets reported on the shutting down of the main BlackEnergy servers, but the botnet ceased to operate completely only in autumn 2012. And a new modification of the threat emerged in January 2013. […]

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