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New Crisis/MORCUT Malware Mounts in Virtual Machines

23

Aug

2012

We were alerted to reports of a Crisis/MORCUT malware that supposedly spreads on VMware virtual machines. Our previous post about Crisis/MORCUT cites that it is a backdoor found to specifically target Mac OSX systems. This time around, the Crisis/MORCUT we have on our hands runs in Windows, and interestingly, mounts on virtual disks.Currently, arrival for […]

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Spammers Use Fake Tibetan Statement on the Olympics

11

Aug

2012

As early as March 2012, we have spotted a number of Tibetan-themed campaigns, and we’ve documented some of them through this blog. So far, the attacks are pretty consistent: they usually arrive as emails with pro-Tibetan sentiments as subjects, and have malicious file attachments.Very recently, however, we found one Tibetan-themed campaign that also touches a […]

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Caring About QUERVAR

10

Aug

2012

We have received several reports and inquiries about file infectors PE_QUERVAR.B-O (mother file infector) and PE_QUERVAR.B (infected file). Both are getting some media attention, specifically in Europe. Reports identify infections registering mostly in Netherlands. Its massive spreading maybe explained by a couple of things: It infects file that are most commonly found and shared in […]

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