The first month of 2013 sprang no surprises. Apparently, virus makers were slow to get back to work after the Christmas holidays. Another outbreak of Trojan.Mayachok programs became the main trend in January which also saw a number of new threats to Windows and Android. Viruses Trojan.Mayachok.2 became the undisputed leader among malware detected by […]
The so called “BKA Trojan” (BKA stands for German Federal Criminal Police) malware which is also known as the Ransom trojan in other countries, has found a more convincing way to fool computer users to pay. Now, together with other eight possible misdeeds, the user is accused of hosting and distributing child pornography materials from his computer. […]
For this month’s Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) release, we will include two families: Win32/Matsnu and Win32/Bafruz. Our focus for this blog will be Bafruz, which is a multi-component backdoor that creates a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network of infected computers (using C&C, for instance), and includes a nasty list of payloads, as well as unique means […]
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