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Unencrypted Whistler Variant in the Wild

12

Feb

2013

Antimalware researchers Marius Tivadar and Cristian Istrate are back with a small update from the labs, this time about the Whistler bootkit family.

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MDK: The Largest Mobile Botnet in China

24

Jan

2013

In February 2012, we blogged about Android.Bmaster (a.k.a. Rootstrap), which infected hundreds of thousands of devices. At that time, it was the largest mobile botnet documented to date. Recently, the Bmaster botnet has been overtaken by the newly uncovered MDK botnet. Dubbed as Android.Troj.mdk, Kingsoft believes it is hidden in more than 7,000 apps and […]

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Trojan.Zeroaccess.C Hidden in NTFS EA

15

Aug

2012

The latest variant of the Zeroaccess Trojan-Trojan.Zeroaccess.C-makes use of a novel technique to store its malicious content: it exploits a feature provided by the NT File System called Extended Attributes (EA).Even before Zeroaccess.C, malware authors have been looking for new ways to hide their malicious creations by making use of a specialized API provided by […]

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