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Backdoor Leads to Facebook and Multi-protocol Instant Messaging Worm

02

May

2013

DORKBOT, which became notorious for spreading via social media and instant messaging applications (e.g.Skype and mIRC etc.), is now found propagating in multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) apps like Quiet Internet Pager and Digsby.These apps enable users to communicate via various IM apps. Digsby supports AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber, and Facebook Chat accounts […]

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An ambush for peculiar Koreans

19

Apr

2013

While researching PlugX propagation with the use of Java exploits we stumbled upon one compromised site that hosted and pushed a malicious Java applet exploiting the CVE 2013-0422 vulnerability. The very malicious Java application was detected heuristically with generic verdict for that vulnerability and it would have been hardly possible to spot that particular site […]

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Skypemageddon by bitcoining

05

Apr

2013

Is it a Skype day? Or maybe a Bitcoin one? Or maybe just both? I say this because right after I published my previous post about malware ongoing campaign on Skype, a mate from Venezuela sent me a screenshot of her Skype client with a similar campaign in terms of propagation but different in terms […]

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