Posts Tagged ‘shylock’

Shylock Likes Smart Cards

Dec

2012

Do you ever use your laptop’s Smart Card reader? You don’t? Yeah, we didn’t think so. (Half of you reading this probably didn’t even realize it had one to begin with.) Windows users: open your Control Panel, go to Administrative Tools, Services — and stop the Smart Card service. Adjust the startup type to prevent […]

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Evading Malware Researchers: Shylock’s New Trick

Nov

2012

Shylock is a financial malware platform discovered by Trusteer in 2011. Like most malware strains, Shylock continues to evolve in order to bypass new defensive technologies put in place by financial institutions and enterprises. While analyzing a recent Shylock dropper we noticed a new trick it uses to evade detection. Namely, it can identify and […]

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The Shylock “LNK” Awakening

Aug

2012

A new development observed in the sophisticated financial banking Trojan.Shylock highlights the ongoing evolution of this threat. Shylock, a threat first observed by Trusteer in September 2011, was named after a character in the Shakespeare play the ‘Merchant of Venice’ due to quotes from the play being found in the original binary code. Symantec has […]

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