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Malicious spam targets Certified Public Accountants

01

Aug

2012

by Dave Michmerhuizen & Luis Chapetti – Security Researchers Malware distributors are always looking to have their programs installed on the desktops of people who handle money. Barracuda Labs has detected a large scale spam campaign that directly targets Certified Public Accountants. The spam poses as an email from the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) […]

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MSRT March 2012: Breaking bad

14

Mar

2012

This month, the MMPC added Win32/Dorkbot to the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool along with detections for the threats Win32/Hioles, Win32/Pluzoks and Win32/Yeltminky. Win32/Dorkbot is described as an IRC-based botnet and a worm, a backdoor with rootkit capability and a password stealer. Despite using a very simple IRC protocol to communicate with the command and […]

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Extracting the fare

15

Feb

2012

When malware is found lurking on a system, quite often it isn’t acting alone. Once malware distributors have control of a system, they will do everything they can to compromise the machine and the user for maximum gain — for instance, hijacking a browser’s search results, or using rogue security software to extract payments from affected […]

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