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Skype Users Targeted with Ransomware and Click Fraud

08

Oct

2012

The infection that’s still spreading across users of Skype has taken an interesting twist: ransomware and click fraud. Skype users tempted to follow the latest set of infection links will end up with a zipfile on their PC. Here’s an example of the rogue links still being pinged around: Clicking the link will download a […]

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Infection Spreads Profile Pic Messages to Skype Users

05

Oct

2012

There’s an infection doing the rounds on the Skype network at the moment, spamming end-users with the following message (or similar variants): Click to Enlarge This has been bouncing around for a few days, with the initial set of download links (on free file hosting websites) being taken down and the first shortened URL (which […]

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Backdoor.Hikit: New Advanced Persistent Threat

24

Aug

2012

Thanks to Peter Coogan for his assistance with this research.Earlier this week Mandiant released a blog which talked about a new advanced persistent threat (APT) they found while investigating a potential compromise. Symantec detects the APT in question as Backdoor.Hikit, a Trojan that enables an attacker to gain control of compromised servers from a remote […]

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