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This post is part one of two. Popular games are often used by malware writers as social engineering bait as documented in previous blogs (“Dota Players Own3d” and “Keeping Kerrigan From Infection“). So, with a watchful eye for anything related to games used as an infection vector, we came across a couple of interesting files: […]

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Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer currency exchange system that features a predictable currency rate. The generation of Bitcoin currency is controlled by an algorithm created by Japanese researcher Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008. Bitcoin system users are essentially "mining" for Bitcoins using their computers CPU power. Today, because of the intrinsic characteristics of the Bitcoin-generating algorithm, calculating new […]

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There has been much discussion of the shutdown of the Kelihos botnet this week by Microsoft and Kaspersky. It is the third such action by the Microsoft Active Response for Security (MARS) initiave in recent memory. Taking down botnets is always good news and even better Microsoft named an individual defendant in their US court […]

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