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MSRT September 2013 – Win32/Simda

Sep

2013

This month’s Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) release includes one new malware family – the high-volume banking trojan Win32/Simda. Simda is a multi-component malware family that includes trojan, backdoor, password-stealing, downloader and file-infector variants. It is very rare for a single malware family to possess all of these characteristics; Alureon and Sirefef are among […]

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The Wonder of Sirefef Plunder

May

2013

Sirefef, also known as ZeroAccess, is a malware platform for receiving and running malware modules. Two prominent modules generate revenue for the cyber criminals, by mining for bitcoins and perpetrating click-fraud. Click-fraud is the deliberate misappropriation of ad revenue by generating online clicks that don’t originate from a potential customer or the rightful publisher. Click-fraud […]

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Don’t pay the rogue, scan with MSRT

May

2013

?We added three new families to this month’s Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT): Win32/FakeDef, Win32/Vicenor, and Win32/Kexqoud. In this blog, we will talk about the rogue antivirus family Win32/FakeDef. It’s not a big player in rogues’ world, but it holds its own unique characteristics. We found this family in the wild in December 2012. Initially […]

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