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We have been tracking the activity of the Rovnix bootkit family since April 2011. Rovnix was the first bookit family to use VBR (Volume Boot Record) infection (NTFS bootstrap code) for loading unsigned kernel-mode drivers on x64 (64 bit) platforms. The reason for exploring further is the desire of the Rovnix developers to bypass antivirus […]

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Ransomware attacks are growing in popularity these days. French users were a recent target of an attack that impersonated the Gendarmerie nationale. A few months ago, Japanese users were also hit by ransomware in a one-click billing fraud scheme targeted for Android smartphones. Last year we documented two ransomware campaigns that targeted Russian users. One […]

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The first month of this leap year did not offer any major surprises in terms of information security. However, Doctor Web’s anti-virus laboratory received samples of several new banking Trojan horses that turned out to be rather unusual. In addition, a new technique for distributing malicious links was discovered. Virus threats in January The file […]

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