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The DORKBOT Rises

16

Oct

2012

DORKBOT, also known as NgrBot, is not a new threat. In fact, it was seen in the wild as early as 2011. Yet last week, DORKBOT made the news for spreading via Skype spammed messages, and has now reached than 17,500 reported infections globally. So what is DORKBOT, really?A worm with multiple propagation routinesDORKBOT typically […]

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US Banks Targeted By Fraud Campaign

11

Oct

2012

Recent reports have stated that a massive campaign of fraud is planned to hit various US banks. Approximately 100 cybercriminals are said to be part of this planned campaign.It is believed that this attack will be launched using newly-developed malware related to the Gozi banking Trojan, which has been called Gozi-Prinimalka. Overall, the capabilities of […]

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Malware Uses Google Go Language

19

Sep

2012

Designed in 2007 and introduced in late 2009, the Go programming language developed by Google has been gaining momentum the past three years. It is now being used to develop malware. Recently seen in the wild, Trojan.Encriyoko is a new threat associated with components which are written in Go. The Trojan attempts to encrypt various […]

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