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‘Win 8 Security System’ Another Fake-Antivirus Malware

01

Sep

2012

We discovered another fake antivirus/antimalware tool late in August. The “Windows 8 Security system” claims to detect infections, and displays alerts to scare users into purchasing protection. The real infection, of course, is the Win 8 Security System itself. It’s no surprise that developers of rogue antivirus software are playing up the connection to Windows […]

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ZeroAccess: code injection chronicles

26

Jun

2012

At the end of spring 2012, the rootkit family Win32/Sirefef and Win64/Sirefef (also known as ZeroAccess) was updated. We start tracking the first updated samples at the beginning of May when a new affiliation program started for the distribution of a new ZeroAccess version. The updated version of Sirefef doesn’t use kernel-mode drivers, as was […]

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The Advanced Features of the Flame Malware

08

Jun

2012

It’s been a little more than a week since Flame was first identified. The FortiGuard Labs team posted a couple of earlier stories here and here.What we know now is that Flame is among the most advanced pieces of malware we’ve ever encountered. The complexity of the code alone leads us to strongly suspect a […]

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