Posts Tagged ‘packers’

LOL Links Wake Up Rage?

Nov

2012

W32.IRCBot.NG and W32.PhopifasIn a previous blog, my colleague Kevin Savage detailed a social engineering attack that utilized instant messaging applications. While the infection rates of W32.IRCBot.NG and W32.Phopifas have passed their peaks, the modules continue to be updated daily.The infection routine of these threats has not changed since they were discovered, but the threat authors […]

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Technical paper – Fake anti-virus: The journey from Trojan to a persistent threat

May

2012

Fake anti-virus (also known as scareware) has grown over the years into a persistent and prevalent threat and is now one of the largest families of malware that we’ve seen in recent history. In this new technical paper from SophosLabs, threat researcher Jagadeesh Chandraiah studies the evolution of fake anti-virus over the last three and […]

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Anatomy of a Crimeware Syndicate, Part III

Feb

2012

Third of our three part series on the Anatomy of a Crimeware Syndicate, as delineated by Derek Manky, Senior Security Strategist at Fortinet. In part one we discussed the fundamental infrastructure and hierarchy of a crimeware syndicate. Part two talked about the threat landscape and major botnet takedowns. Now part three looks at specific threats […]

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