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TDL4 Worm Component Employs Bitcoin Mining

28

Sep

2011

In the past we’ve reported a couple of attacks involving malware that turns affected systems into Bitcoin miners, and we also said that cybercriminals will increasingly do so in the future. Recently we encountered another malware -a familiar and known malware family – that turns the system into a Bitcoin miner.TDL4 is a well known […]

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Diginotar: Iranians – The Real Target

05

Sep

2011

In this blog posting, we present concrete evidence that the recent compromise of Dutch Certification Authority Diginotar was used for spying on Iranian Internet users on a large scale.We found that Internet users in more than 40 different networks of ISPs and universities in Iran were confronted with rogue SSL certificates issued by Diginotar. Even […]

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Google Starts Malware Warning Service

21

Jul

2011

As announced on July 19, 2011, Google started a service that warns users of possible malware infection. According to Google‘s blog article, an investigation was started after observing abnormal traffic coming to Google whilst performing regular maintenance. The investigation revealed that the abnormal traffic came from PCs infected with a particular piece of malware. The […]

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