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The Miner Botnet: Bitcoin Mining Goes Peer-To-Peer

19

Aug

2011

Identifying a botnet is not an easy task sometimes, especially when one gets lost in different components like droppers, infectors and other bad stuff. Some two weeks ago, Jose Nazario from Arbor Networks pointed me to a new varmint that appears to be another peer-to-peer bot. When executed, the program installs tons of stuff that […]

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Blackhole exploit kit continues it’s dominance

06

Aug

2011

Today, I was investigating a block that had been triggered on a webpage due to detection of the Blackhole exploit kit. We previously posted a blog about the rise in Blackhole exploit kit detections back in February, 2011. That blog post continues to receive comments from readers who have identified similar attacks and I regularly […]

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Spammers Take Advantage of Unicode Normalization to Hide URLs

04

Aug

2011

by Francisco Pardo and Nick Johnston Spammers are never idle when it comes to finding new ways to bypass mail filters—after all, this is crucial to a spammer's success. Recently, we've seen a low but steady number of spam messages in which spammers are replacing certain characters in URLs (which point to spam sites) with […]

Category General Written by Symantec Security Response Blog 0 Comments

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