Posts Tagged ‘search engine results’

Drive-by FTP: a new view of CVE-2011-3544

Mar

2012

[Some interesting research reported by Aleksandr Matrosov] Not long ago we received interesting information from an independent security researcher from Russia, Vladimir Kropotov. (We will be presenting our joint research with him at CARO 2012). We started to research this information and found an interesting way to distribute by FTP the payload for the most […]

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Is this the resurgence of Blackhat SEO?

Feb

2012

At the start of 2011, blackhat SEO was very much alive and kicking, and was being aggressively used to infect users with malware [1 ,2]. By May 2011, our detection for the malicious redirect used in these attacks, Mal/SEORed, was dominating our threat stats. Note: For readers that want a a quick recap on how […]

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January ’12 MSRT: Win32/Sefnit

Jan

2012

The January 2012 edition of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) includes detection and removal of the Win32/Sefnit family of trojans. This trojan family moderates and redirects web browser search engine results for Bing, Yahoo! and Google. The earliest reported variant in this family can be traced back to August 2010. The installation mechanism […]

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