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Recently, we blogged about systems compromised by W32.Virut that were observed downloading W32.Waledac.D (Kelihos). Symantec has followed the Waledac evolution for a number of years and have observed the botnet showing considerable resilience against take-down efforts conducted in the past. Waledac is traditionally known as a spamming botnet which has been observed to send up […]

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In this month’s Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) release, we add Win32/Medfos. This is a fairly new family, but it is continuously gaining big detection numbers around the world, especially in the United States. The initial Win32/Medfos infection is usually a downloader component that is distributed in different ways; for example, by visiting a […]

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At the end of spring 2012, the rootkit family Win32/Sirefef and Win64/Sirefef (also known as ZeroAccess) was updated. We start tracking the first updated samples at the beginning of May when a new affiliation program started for the distribution of a new ZeroAccess version. The updated version of Sirefef doesn’t use kernel-mode drivers, as was […]

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