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Sality: A Nasty Binary Tracked Down from Download.com

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Nov

2012

What a weird positive we’ve just spotted on CNET’s Download.com.Win32:SaliCode blockedSality is quite a bad file infector. Is it a false positive? Is it a partially disinfected sample? Which way leads to this nasty binary? Check out this screenshot:SecurityXplodedWe’ve decided to cross-check the file more thoroughly – the infected binary is from InstallMonetizer, which is […]

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Don’t fall for Folstart

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Nov

2012

We use thumb drives in different ways – usually to transfer files from one computer to another. When we create folders in thumb drives, we have a certain level of confidence that the folder isn’t malicious or doesn’t contain malware. Unfortunately, this assumption is not always true. For the month of November, we added the Folstart […]

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JACKSBOT Has Some Dirty Tricks up Its Sleeves

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Oct

2012

Contrary to initial reports, JACKSBOT may not be as low risk as initially thought. We noted some JACKSBOT infection in the wild, indicating that the people behind this multiplatform malware are saving their best tricks for last.We analyzed the JACKSBOT backdoor family (specific detection name JAVA_JACKSBOT.A) that arrives as a Java application. Because it is […]

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