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Rogue Bing Ads Lure Users to Fake Snapchat Installer

02

Nov

2013

Security researchers from ThreatTrack Security have come across a number of executable files purporting to be installers for the popular photo messaging application Snapchat. It turns out that users who search on Bing for Snapchat are presented with sponsored ads that point to videonechat(dot)com. The site appears to be hosting a Snapchat installer, but a […]

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A Look at Evasion Techniques in the Pushdo Botnet

11

Sep

2013

We recently came across a compromised website pushing out a payload that belongs to the Pushdo botnet, a botnet reportedly controlled by a well-funded Eastern European Cybercrime group. This botnet has often been closely associated with the Cutwail spam botnet. In the past, the Cutwail group would spam out payloads for the Pushdo botnet, which […]

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Malware Authors Employ Variety to Evade Security Detection

02

Sep

2013

In the McAfee Labs blog we have covered many techniques that malware uses to evade code-based detection. In my previous blog I discussed procedure prologue and procedure epilogue techniques to evade security systems. We recently came across one more set of fake-alert samples that use a different technique to evade detection. This technique is related […]

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