Posts Tagged ‘PWS:Win32/Zbot’

Zbot Variant Poorly Detected by AV Engines

Jun

2014

A security researcher encountered a threat sample identified as Zbot by five of the 52 engines availableon VirusTotal.Zbot, also known as Zeus, is a Trojan designed for data stealing purposes, focusing on confidential details such as online credentials and banking information, but it can be crafted to target other types of details as well.Jonathan French […]

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Upatre: Emerging Up(d)at(er) in the wild

Nov

2013

The MMPC is constantly monitoring emerging threats that are impacting our customers the most.Recently, we started seeing Win32/Upatre being distributed in the wild. This chart shows how this threat has impacted customer machines in just about two months.Figure 1: Monthly telemetry data on Win32/Upatre downloader As we see in this next chart, the concentration of […]

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