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New zero-day Windows kernel vulnerability associated with Duqu Trojan

02

Nov

2011

In the continuing saga of the malware known as Duqu, CrySyS Lab at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics has announced it was able to acquire a copy of the “dropper” from one of the victims. What is a dropper and what does this mean? A dropper is a term used by anti-virus researchers […]

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Update on the Zbot spot!

01

Nov

2011

Hello Internet! I’m back to update you on our changes to Zbot in the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT). We reviewed the data coming back from MSRT in September and incorporated the findings into October’s MSRT (and beyond), which means we are now in a position to provide additional information. As I mentioned in the […]

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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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