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Earlier this week, Microsoft released an announcement about the disruption of a dangerous botnet that was responsible for spam messages, theft of sensitive financial information, pump-and-dump stock scams and distributed denial-of-service attacks. Kaspersky Lab played a critical role in this botnet takedown initiative, leading the way to reverse-engineer the bot malware, crack the communication protocol […]

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Last week we blogged about the rise of two botnets in our spam statistics and provided details of Xarvester. Today, we take a closer look at the other botnet in question: Donbot. Donbot has been around for about three years but lately has surged to the top of our spam statistics chart with masses of […]

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We were recently able to sinkhole a CARBERP command and control (C&C) server, similar to the way in which we sinkholed a ZeuS C&C in March of this year. This post will explain our findings during the said activity. The results have basically led us to conclude that CARBERP has proven once more that malware […]

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