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MSRT June Release, taking care of a few worm families

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Jun

2011

In this month’s MSRT release, we added three new threat families to the detection capability. One of these three is Win32/Nuqel, which has been around for four years since its first variant was found. More than 60 variants of Win32/Nuqel have been identified in the wild. This worm spreads itself via network shares, removable drives […]

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Autorun-abusing malware (Where are they now?)

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Jun

2011

On Feb. 8, Microsoft started releasing updates for the Windows XP and Vista platforms to make the Autorun feature more locked-down on those older platforms by preventing AutoPlay from being enabled automatically (except when it comes to “shiny media” such as CDs and DVDs). We knew we would want to come back sometime later to measure […]

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The Worm, the Rogue DHCP, and TDL4

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Jun

2011

Last week, we saw reports about TDL4-the most recent iteration of TDSS-exhibit self-propagation routines. The worm component, which Trend Micro detects as WORM_OTORUN.ASH, was first discovered in early March and we have been seeing a continuous increase in this malicious operation based on our internal statistics. North America and Japan, in particular, appear to have […]

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