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Unexpected reboot: Necurs

07

Dec

2012

Necurs is a prevalent threat in the wild at the moment – variants of Necurs were reported on 83,427 unique machines during the month of November 2012. Necurs is mostly distributed by drive-by download. This means that you might be silently infected by Necurs when you visit websites that have been compromised by exploit kits such as Blackhole. So […]

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Instaspam 2: Electric Boogaloo

29

Nov

2012

While death and taxes may be certainties in our lives, in the digital world-especially in social networking-one certainty is spam.I recently wrote about gift card spam targeting the popular photo-sharing application Instagram. The service now has over 100 million users and it recently surpassed Twitter with more average daily visitors (Figure 1). As the number […]

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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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