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Man Arrested by German Police Is Reportedly the Author of the Skynet Botnet

09

Dec

2013

Last week, we learned that police in Germany arrested two individuals who used a modified version of an existing malware to create a botnet which theyd leveraged to mine over 700,000 ($954,000) in Bitcoins. Police say two people have been detained, and a third one has been questioned.

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The Powerloader 64-bit update based on leaked exploits

27

Aug

2013

A few months ago on this blog I described PowerLoader functionality including an interesting way for privilege escalation into the explorer.exe system process. The leaked PowerLoader code is also used in other malware families. For example the Win32/Gapz dropper is based on leaked PowerLoader code. In August 2013 we have tracked a new modification of […]

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Compromised Auto-Update Mechanism Affects South Korean Users

26

Jun

2013

On Tuesday, South Korea raised the country’s cyber security alarm from level 1 to 3, because of several incidents that affected different government and news websites in South Korea. One of the several attacks related to the June 25 security incident involved the compromise of the auto-update mechanism related to the legitimate installer file SimDisk.exe, […]

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