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Just recently, Microsoft shut down the command-and-control infrastructure (C&C) of Win32/Nitol malware – one of the most active DDoS-performing malware families today. The take down, dubbed as “Operation b70“, was a great success. To amplify its disruption, DDoS:Win32/Nitol was included in this month’s Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) release. Microsoft’s study [PDF] behind Operation b70 found […]

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It’s been a little more than a week since Flame was first identified. The FortiGuard Labs team posted a couple of earlier stories here and here.What we know now is that Flame is among the most advanced pieces of malware we’ve ever encountered. The complexity of the code alone leads us to strongly suspect a […]

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We’ve come across a malicious Olympic themed PDF earlier this morning while data mining our back end for documents which drop executables (those are never a good thing, unsurprisingly). The PDF exploits CVE-2010-2883, which affects older versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat. A typical PDF exploit will launch a clean decoy as part of its […]

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