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Scareware on the Piggy-Back of ACAD/Medre.A

Jul

2012

There are always people who want to piggy-back on the achievements of others. After ESET warned the public against ACAD/Medre.A in two blogs here and here and issued a free standalone cleaner for remediation, there was always the possibility that drawing attention to the issue would result in the topic being misused for other purposes. While […]

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DarkComet RAT – It is the END!

Jul

2012

The official website of DarkComet remote administration tool (RAT), detected by Symantec as Backdoor.Breut, has published a statement, as shown below, explaining that the project has come to an end. The DarkComet RAT grabbed news headlines this year when it was used in the Syrian conflict to spy on regime supporters. The decision of the author to […]

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ZeroAccess Rootkit Launched by Signed Installers

Nov

2011

Digital certificates and certificate authorities have been much in the news recently. Attacks–such as those used by Stuxnet, Duqu, and other malware–involving stolen certificates show an increasingly worrisome new security trend. Certificate authorities have been targeted several times in the recent past with some success. There is a large chunk of known malware signed by […]

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