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A unique ‘fileless’ bot attacks news site visitors

16

Mar

2012

In early March, we received a report from an independent researcher on mass infections of computers on a corporate network after users had visited a number of well-known Russian online information resources. The symptoms were the same in each case: the computer sent several network requests to third-party resources, after which, in some cases, several […]

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WordPress Page is Loading… an Exploit

16

Mar

2012

WordPress.org is being targeted once again, and although this time there isn’t much sneaky sophistication, the infection is still prevalent enough for Internet users to be wary. Spam appears to be the driver of these campaigns. Various websites have already been identified to be redirecting to Blackhole exploit kit. Compromised websites would render any of […]

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64-Bit System Driver Infected and Signed After UAC Bypassed

15

Mar

2012

What was just a theory not so long ago is now being used in-the-wild by threats such as Backdoor.Hackersdoor and its newer variant Backdoor.Conpee. Back in December we analyzed tdpipe.sys, an infected 64-bit Windows 7 system driver. The infection consisted of an extra import added to the driver’s import table: The import named DiscPart from […]

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