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The MiniDuke Mystery: PDF 0-day Government Spy Assembler 0x29A Micro Backdoor

27
Feb
2013

On Feb 12th 2013, FireEye announced the discovery of an Adobe Reader 0-day exploit which is used to drop a previously unknown, advanced piece of malware. We called this new malware “ItaDuke” because it reminded us of Duqu and because of the ancient Italian comments in the shellcode copied from Dante Aligheri’s “Divine Comedy”. Since […]

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Bitcoin mining with Trojan.Badminer

16
Aug
2011

Bitcoins have been in the news in recent months and there has been much discussion on them, as part of public discourse. In terms of how bitcoins are being targeted by malware, we’ve seen past attempts by Trojan.Cointbitminer to “mine” bitcoins on compromised computers, using up precious CPU cycles in the process. We’ve even seen […]

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