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Custom Attachment Names and Passwords for Trojans

18

Jul

2013

Websense® Security Labs™ researchers, using our Websense ThreatSeeker® Intelligence Cloud, recently noticed an increased use of custom-generated attachment file names, and some use of password-protected ZIP files. Emails with banking/financial themes are being sent with executables packed in ZIP files, with file names matching the intended recipient. When the attachment runs on a victim's computer, a Trojan from the Zbot P2P family […]

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Under the Hood of BKDR_ZACCESS

07

Nov

2012

In the previous quarter, we reported that we protected against more than 142 million threats in the first half of 2012 alone. One prominent threat in this period was ZACCESS, which is also known as ZeroAccess or SIREFEF. It can push fake applications and other malware onto infected systems, while using its rootkit capabilities to […]

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TDSS + Bitcoin = ?

14

Sep

2011

Bitсoin is an electronic currency built with P2P and designed for anonymous financial transactions in the Internet. Besides the obvious advantages for users this currency is also very ‘capable’ for cybercriminals. We wrote about different examples of malware used for monetization here and here. But now we will discuss TDSS and its new module for […]

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