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MSRT November ’11: Carberp

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Nov

2011

We included three threat families in the November edition of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool – Win32/Carberp, Win32/Cridex and Win32/Dofoil. In this post, we discuss Win32/Carberp. The first variant of Win32/Carberp was discovered early last year. This malware has evolved from a trojan downloader that downloads an additional password stealer, such as PWS:Win32/Ldpinch, to […]

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SIRv11: Putting Vulnerability Exploitation into Context

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Oct

2011

As Vinny Gullotto, our GM blogged earlier in the week, the 11th edition of the Security Intelligence Report (SIRv11) has been released. One of the new areas of research in this release is a study of the most prevalent kinds of vulnerability exploitation and how much of that exploitation is 0-day (short for zero-day, an […]

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MSRT October ’11: EyeStye

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Oct

2011

This month, the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) targets two families: Win32/EyeStye and Win32/Poison. EyeStye (aka ‘SpyEye’) is a family of trojans that steals information, targeting authentication data used for online banking such as passwords and digital certificates. The method it employs is called “form grabbing” which involves the interception of webform data submitted to […]

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