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Nasty Trojan infects 100 hosts in sixty minutes

Apr

2013

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web has gained control over a botnet created with BackDoor.Bulknet.739 that, on average, is infecting as many as 100 computers per hour. The Trojan facilitates the sending of massive volumes of spam from infected computers. BackDoor.Bulknet.739 mainly targets machines located in Italy, France, Turkey, the USA, Mexico and Thailand. The first […]

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Linux.Sshdkit attacks Linux servers

Feb

2013

The growing number of incidents involving compromised Linux web servers led Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web to conduct its own investigation into matter. Its analysts found that a Trojan horse, dubbed Linux.Sshdkit by Dr.Web, was sometimes being employed to steal passwords on servers running Linux. The malware is a library file available for 32- and […]

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Trojan.Rodricter spreads by exploiting critical Java vulnerability

Sep

2012

On August 26, FireEye reported the discovery of a critical vulnerability in Java Runtime Environment versions 1.7x, which was designated as CVE-2012-4681. Oracle released a security patch only on August 30, and, therefore, the vulnerability remained unclosed for at least four days-an opportunity criminals were quick to take advantage of. Doctor Web determined that a […]

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