Initially, I thought that Backdoor.Makadocs was a simple and typical back door Trojan horse. It receives and executes commands from a command-and-control (C&C) server and it gathers information from the compromised computer including the host name and the operating system type. Interestingly, the malware author has also considered the possibility that the compromised computer could […]
Today is that fateful day: Election Day. And we’re not short of seeing shenanigans related to this big event that online criminals and scammers have been taking advantage of for months. What we have below are just some of what we found surrounding the elections. First off is a file that goes by the name […]
This spam attempts to load malware from videomanipulationccflbacklit.pro although at the moment the domain is not resolving: Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 18:15:37 +0300 From: “Internal Revenue Service” [[email protected]] Subject: Federal Tax transaction canceled Your Tax transaction (ID: 849395748011), recently sent from your checking account was canceled by the your financial institution. […]
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