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Relentless Zbot and Anti-emulations

03

Jul

2012

A couple of months ago, Microsoft took out some Trojan.Zbot servers across the world. The impact was short-lived. Even though for a span of about two weeks, we saw virtually no Trojan.Zbot activity, relentless Trojan.Zbot activity has resumed-with some added new social-engineering techniques as well as some new techniques to help Trojan.Zbot avoid antivirus detection.The […]

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Redux: Are you sure SHA-1+salt is enough for passwords?

07

Jun

2012

Yesterday, LinkedIn confirmed reports that some member passwords have been compromised. Here’s some info from their blog: “It is worth noting that the affected members who update their passwords and members whose passwords have not been compromised benefit from the enhanced security we just recently put in place, which includes hashing and salting of our […]

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W32.Flamer: Enormous Data Collection

05

Jun

2012

W32.Flamer has built-in modules to gather an enormous amount of information from compromised computers, well beyond that of any threat seen previously. These modules, referred to as 'apps' by the threat, are downloadable and updatable by the threat from an 'app store', as described in a previous blog. Flamer may initially collect some preliminary information […]

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