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Extracting the fare

15

Feb

2012

When malware is found lurking on a system, quite often it isn’t acting alone. Once malware distributors have control of a system, they will do everything they can to compromise the machine and the user for maximum gain — for instance, hijacking a browser’s search results, or using rogue security software to extract payments from affected […]

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Malware Uses New DLL Loading Technique – MS11-071

13

Oct

2011

It has been a year since we have witnessed a DLL hijacking technique which loads a malicious DLL that affects hundreds of programs. The method involves dropping a collection of normal files together with the malicious DLL from within a directory. We recently analyzed the following archive sample. Only the file “deskpan.dll” was detected as […]

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Phony Mc Bling Sting

11

Aug

2011

CCleaner (formerly Crap Cleaner, which is a glorious name) is a handy program used to remove unwanted files, fix borked registry entries and more besides. There’s a website located at myccleaner(dot)ru which claims to be offering up multiple versions / builds of CCleaner: Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge It’s also offering you the chance to […]

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