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The Flame: Questions and Answers

28

May

2012

Duqu and Stuxnet raised the stakes in the cyber battles being fought in the Middle East – but now we’ve found what might be the most sophisticated cyber weapon yet unleashed. The ‘Flame’ cyber espionage worm came to the attention of our experts at Kaspersky Lab after the UN’s International Telecommunication Union came to us […]

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Dishigy dishes out the DDoS and we dig deeper…

25

May

2012

The May edition of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool saw the inclusion of two new malware families: Win32/Unruy and Win32/Dishigy. Let’s dig a bit deeper into Dishigy and the nature of Denial of Service.So, bear with me while I take you back to security 101.A Denial of Service (DoS) attack is a pretty straightforward […]

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Widespread malware abuses unsecured Geolocation Service of Adult Website

04

May

2012

While researching outbound malware communications to improve detections for our products, we recently made an interesting discovery. Thousands of samples running in our malware lab reached out to the URL promos.fling.com/geo/txt/city.php. At first we suspected this to be a command and control (C&C) server of botnet malware. However, Websense® categorization of the main Web page of the […]

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