memory | DataProtectionCenter.com

Malware evolving to defeat anti-DDoS services like CloudFlare?

14

Feb

2013

Could distributed denial of service (DDoS) malware be evolving to defeat anti-DDoS security measures like CloudFlare? We do not usually see a lot of innovative denial-of-service malware in our day-to-day work. What we do see usually boils down to the basic flooding techniques: TCP Syn, UDP and ping floods, and sometimes HTTP-oriented floods. Of course, […]

Category General Written by We Live Security 0 Comments

UK based malware employing backdoor Anti-VM Tricks

12

Dec

2012

Recently we have noticed a new variant of backdoor malware spreading in UK networks using interesting anti-virtual machine tricks.Today’s malware uses anti-emulation and anti-debugging tricks on a daily basis to prevent malware researchers from debugging or emulating a particular sample. The vast majority of malware files still consist of simple anti-emulation tricks like calling less […]

Category General Written by AVG Blogs 0 Comments

Malware Steals Image Files from Systems

02

Nov

2012

It appears that information theft has taken a new form: we’ve found a malware that steals image files from all drives of an affected system and then sends them to a remote FTP server.Detected as TSPY_PIXSTEAL.A, this particular malware opens a hidden command line and copies all .JPG, .JPEG, and .DMP files. Both .JPG and […]

Category General Written by Security Intelligence 0 Comments

The Latest in IT Security

Posts Tagged ‘memory’

Malware evolving to defeat anti-DDoS services like CloudFlare?

UK based malware employing backdoor Anti-VM Tricks

Malware Steals Image Files from Systems

Categories

Featured

Archives

Latest Comments

About Us

Contact Us