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New Crisis/MORCUT Malware Mounts in Virtual Machines

23

Aug

2012

We were alerted to reports of a Crisis/MORCUT malware that supposedly spreads on VMware virtual machines. Our previous post about Crisis/MORCUT cites that it is a backdoor found to specifically target Mac OSX systems. This time around, the Crisis/MORCUT we have on our hands runs in Windows, and interestingly, mounts on virtual disks.Currently, arrival for […]

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MP-DDoser: A rapidly improving DDoS threat

07

Jun

2012

This blog post is the fifth installment in our ongoing series of articles surveying the crypto systems used by different DDoS-capable malware families. Today’s topic is MP-DDoser, also known as “IP-Killer” As far as we are aware, MP-DDoser was first documented in February 2012 by Arbor analyst Curt Wilson in his pioneering survey of modern […]

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MIDI exploit in the wild

27

Jan

2012

Symantec Security Response is aware of in-the-wild malware exploiting the Microsoft Windows Media Player 'winmm.dll' MIDI File Parsing Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (BID 51292). Microsoft has already issued a patch against this vulnerability in the monthly patch release this January. Applying the patch is strongly recommended. There are several components involved in this live attack: […]

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