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Trojan.Ransomgerpo Criminal Arrested

14

Feb

2013

Spanish police have reported the arrest of an individual involved with a particular strain of police Ransomware known as Ransom.EY, detected by Symantec as Trojan.Ransomgerpo.This variant is one of the earliest active police Ransomware families, which Symantec has been tracking since at least July, 2011. The Trojan was distributed using drive by download techniques, in […]

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The Koobface Saga

18

Jan

2012

Just as the saying goes that there are many ways to skin a cat, threat investigation can also be done a handful of different ways, employing various expertise, especially when dealing with a threat employing several pieces of malware and a relatively robust C&C infrastructure.But even though methodologies may change, whether through reverse engineering or […]

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How fast fingerprinting of OLE2 files can lead to efficient malware detection

13

Oct

2011

At last week’s Virus Bulletin 2011 conference Paul Baccas and Stephen Edwards from SophosLabs presented their research paper “Fast fingerprinting of OLE2 files: Heuristics for detection of exploited OLE2 files based on specification non-conformance”. They may win the prize for the longest title, but what does it mean? OLE2 is a container format synonymous with […]

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