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July 2012 virus activity review: the summer lull and a new threat to Mac OS

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Aug

2012

July 2012 saw an increased number of system infections by blocker Trojans; at the same time, because one of the largest BackDoor.Blackenergy botnets was brought down, spam traffic declined significantly. At the end of the month, Doctor Web discovered a cross-platform Trojan, dubbed BackDoor.DaVinci.1, targeting both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It should be […]

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Stronger Windows 8 Still Vulnerable Through Apps, Users

26

Jul

2012

This is the third in a series of posts about Microsoft Windows 8, the Metro interface, and our view of its security status. To review the first two articles, click here and here.UEFI and Secure BootWith Windows 8, Microsoft introduces Secure Boot, which allows the boot sequence to be secure and trusted. For cryptographic verification […]

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Fake FBI Ransomware analysis

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Jun

2012

In our previous blog post our AVG Web Threats Research group analyzed a Blackhole exploit kit serving the fake FBI Ransomware. Today we will have a look at the ransomware itself. Payload Here is a typical ransom malware payload once it’s active on infected computer: User’s desktop is locked with a full-screen information displayed Task […]

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