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An Int 13 trick from the new Wapomi sample

09

Aug

2012

It’s quite common for bootkit malware to modify the Master Boot Record (MBR), Volume Boot Record (VBR) and even BIOS but we were unaware of anything more innovative.Last week however, we found a new bootkit sample in China, which appeared to be a bit different from other bootkits. It behaved abnormally in its MBR’s 512 […]

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‘Bioskits’ Join Ranks of Stealth Malware

08

Jun

2012

We have seen many discussions of the MyBios “Bioskit” discovered at the end of 2011. MyBios was the first malware to successfully infect the Award BIOS and survive the reboot. It was first discovered by a Chinese security company; many other security vendors published detailed analyses after that.We have seen a lot of samples targeting […]

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Strange Case of W32.Xpaj.B: Patient Zero

25

May

2012

A number of days ago, we observed a new variant of the W32.Xpaj.B virus and we blogged all of the initial details about its new features and how the outbreak sample is the patient zero of the infection. We have now done more analysis and the conclusion is in: there is no outbreak and W32.Xpaj.B […]

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