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Fighting the OSX/Flashback Hydra

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Apr

2012

The biggest Mac botnet ever encountered, the OSX/Flashback botnet, is being hit hard. On April 12th, Apple released a third Java update since the Flashback malicious code outbreak. This update includes a new tool called MRT (Malware Removal Tool) which allows Apple to quickly push malware removal code to their user base. The first mission […]

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Flashfake Removal Tool and online-checking site

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Apr

2012

After intercepting one of the domain names used by the Flashback/Flashfake Mac Trojan and setting up a special sinkhole server last Friday, we managed to gather stats on the scale and geographic distribution of the related botnet. We published information on this in our previous blog entry. We continued to intercept domain names after setting […]

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MSRT March 2012: Breaking bad

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Mar

2012

This month, the MMPC added Win32/Dorkbot to the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool along with detections for the threats Win32/Hioles, Win32/Pluzoks and Win32/Yeltminky. Win32/Dorkbot is described as an IRC-based botnet and a worm, a backdoor with rootkit capability and a password stealer. Despite using a very simple IRC protocol to communicate with the command and […]

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