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Malicious Boot loaders

07

Dec

2011

Cybercriminals are always looking for new ways to infect systems – ideally without being noticed until it’s too late. The sky is the limit for their creativity, as the latest wave of malicious boot loaders shows. The kit has been pioneered by Brazilian Trojan bankers who aim to remove security software. This non-traditional infection only […]

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MSRT November: Dofoil

23

Nov

2011

As previously noted, one of the three families added to the November release of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool is Win32/Dofoil. TrojanDownloader:Win32/Dofoil is a configurable downloader. Dofoil will attempt to receive control instructions from a remote server. The response contains encrypted configuration data containing download URLs and execution options, as visible in a partially […]

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MSRT Nov’ 11: Cridex – the hex of Skidlo

11

Nov

2011

Earlier, we discussed Win32/Carberp, a malware family included in the November release of the Malicious Software Removal Tool. In this post, we discuss another included malware, Win32/Cridex. Win32/Cridex is a relatively new family; we discovered its first variant in the wild in August 2011. This trojan is primarily downloaded and installed by other malware, detected […]

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