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Stratfor customers targeted by cybercriminals

14

Feb

2012

Cybercriminals are continuing to use a social engineering trick to lure users for their malware campaigns. This time, they targeted customers of Stratfor – a subscription-based provider of geopolitical analysis. Attacks against Stratfor clients began after a reported breach of their customer database. The spammed email contains an attached PDF file named “stratfor.pdf”. Upon opening […]

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A different breed of downloader

25

Jan

2012

In our everyday world, we sometimes make use of thin clients, which don’t have a lot of functionality but are easy to maintain, as their functionality is based on data they receive from remote servers. Malware authors have adopted a similar technique, in which malware is able to download executable code without actually downloading an […]

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MSRT November: Dofoil

23

Nov

2011

As previously noted, one of the three families added to the November release of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool is Win32/Dofoil. TrojanDownloader:Win32/Dofoil is a configurable downloader. Dofoil will attempt to receive control instructions from a remote server. The response contains encrypted configuration data containing download URLs and execution options, as visible in a partially […]

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