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Smoke and mirrors and Win32/Phorpiex

16

Nov

2012

This month one of the families introduced to MSRT is Win32/Phorpiex, a worm that spreads via removable drives and has IRC controlled backdoor functionality. In most respects Phorpiex is another worm, with typical command and control via IRC as well as spreading via removable drives. Like many other malware it usually does this by using […]

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Searching With VirusTotal

21

May

2012

DidierStevens.com – Did you know that you can search VirusTotal? You don’t have to submit a file, but you can search for the report of a file has been submitted before. You use a cryptographic hash (MD5, SHA1, SHA256) to identify the file.There are several tools to submit a batch of files to VirusTotal, but […]

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Apple releases update to protect against MacDefender

01

Jun

2011

Apple has released security update 2011-003 to address the recent increase in malware targeting Mac OS X. It updates the included XProtect program to detect scareware variants we have seen attacking Mac users, including MacDefender, Mac Guard and Mac Security. It seems to still have the restriction of only working through the LSQuarantine library. Once […]

Category General Written by Naked Security - Sophos 0 Comments

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