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DaRK DDoSseR Leads to Gh0st RAT

Nov

2012

The malware BKDR_ADDNEW, better known as “DaRK DDoSseR” in the underground, is a tool that provides distributed denial of service (DDOS) capability combined with password stealing functionality. The tool costs $30 and has been available for several years.Recently, our friends at FireEye reported seeing computers that had been compromised by BKDR_ADDNEW and later updated with […]

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The Case of the Unintended Android Application Upgrade

Mar

2012

There has been a lot of confusion over the last hours after an application named “МТС Мобильная Почта” was automatically added to the My Apps section of some Samsung devices as an apparent application upgrade. However, these devices have never installed this application. Some users thought this was a bug within Google’s upgrading mechanism, but […]

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TDL4 reloaded: Purple Haze all in my brain

Feb

2012

Update: Mila's own blog on the topic is now available here. Other vendors may find the MD5 useful: A1B3E59AE17BA6F940AFAF86485E5907. However, Mila reports that detection of the sample is already improving. Update 2: just to clarify, Aleksandr and Eugene should get the credit for the analysis, as is usual with our collaborations. I'm just the scribe/editor […]

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