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Shylock Likes Smart Cards

04

Dec

2012

Do you ever use your laptop’s Smart Card reader? You don’t? Yeah, we didn’t think so. (Half of you reading this probably didn’t even realize it had one to begin with.) Windows users: open your Control Panel, go to Administrative Tools, Services — and stop the Smart Card service. Adjust the startup type to prevent […]

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A ZeuS variant that asks: No sound? No way.

16

Aug

2012

We rely on a good amount of automation and virtualization in our battle against malware. Our opponents, malware authors, know this and they frequently employ new tactics to avoid being processed by our back end systems. One particularly prevalent threat is a “banking trojan” called ZeuS. In the past, we’ve written about a ZeuS variant […]

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ZeuS Ransomware Feature: win_unlock

21

May

2012

Earlier today, while doing our daily data mining, we came across a new variant of ZeuS 2.x. It includes a new backdoor command called: win_unlock. Very interesting, turns out this slightly modified ZeuS 2.x includes a ransomware feature. When this particular variant is executed, it opens Internet Explorer with a specific page (lex.creativesandboxs.com/locker/lock.php) and prevents […]

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