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Darkshell DDOS Botnet Evolves With Variants

06

Apr

2012

Darkshell is a distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnet targeting Chinese websites. It was found in 2011 and was first analyzed by Arbor Networks. McAfee Labs recently analyzed a few new samples that turned out to be variants of Darkshell, and we found extensive variations in network traffic and control commands.The Darkshell bot follows a […]

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New Flashback Variant Changes Tack to Infect Macs

07

Mar

2012

Intego has discovered a new variant of the Flashback malware, Flashback.N, which has been changed since our blog post showing how Flashback used Twitter as a command and control center. This new variant changes the files it installs and their location: the files we specified in our blog post of February 23 are no long […]

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Long life to Kelihos!

17

Feb

2012

During the past months, the spam engine Kelihos has attracted the attention of many people, including security company researchers and analysts. Very interesting also was the recent official Microsoft response where has been confirmed a new generation of Kelihos variants derived from the previous. The Websense® Security Labs™ Spam Trap system has detected a variant of Kelihos that is apparently still active. We focused […]

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