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Your Data and the Business of Online Scams

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Feb

2013

Like any other businesses, scammers operate within a certain model to ensure the continuity of their schemes. In my previous post, I discussed in details about a typical scammer’s profile, trust model, and the strategies they use to get hold and sustain customers. This time around, we’ll look into the business model that they use […]

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MSRT February 2013 – Sirefef

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Feb

2013

The family added to the February release of the Malicious Software Removal Tool is Win32/Sirefef. Win32/Sirefef is a highly prevalent complex multi-component family which continues to evolve. The payload for current variants may include such actions as modifying browser search engine results, generating pay-per-click revenue and performing Bitcoin mining on an affected computer. The first detection […]

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Cross-Platform Frutas RAT Builder and Back Door

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Feb

2013

We recently came across a sample of a back door remote access tool (RAT) written entirely in Java. The RAT is freely distributed on underground forums, free for any registered forum user to download. It is named Frutas, which means “fruit” in Spanish. Figure 1. Frutas logo The Frutas RAT allows attackers to create a connect-back client […]

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