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Hidden details about the last Skype spread malware

10

Oct

2012

Many things have been told already about the latest Skype malware spread via instant messages. However I just wanted to add something not mentioned yet. The first thing is about when the attack was launched first. According to Google Short URL service it first surfaced on Oct 6th : To be exact it happened at […]

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News of Beastie Boy Adam Yauch’s Death Leads to Malware

12

May

2012

The demise of Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch (also known by his moniker MCA) have resonated among hip hop fans these past days. Sadly, we have seen a particular attack that targets specific recipients and used this news item as a social engineering lure. We have found an email sample that leverages Yauch’s death to entice […]

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Doing the Zbot spot; playing gotcha with a botnet

15

Sep

2011

Greetings Internet! This month (carefully hidden under the Win32/Bamital blanket), employing the old adage ‘fight fire with fire’, we decided to fight sneakiness with sneakiness and quietly slipped a fairly major Win32/Zbot update into MSRT. “Zbot” I hear you say? Yes, it’s still around and kicking. Despite Win32/Zbot (officially self-titled with the oh-so-ego-inflating ‘Zeus’ moniker, despite […]

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