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Win32/Cridex: Java pushes Cyprus into a Blackhole

20

Mar

2013

Sadly, Cyprus has been the source of bad news lately. Even sadder, nothing travels faster than bad news, and bad people are all too ready to use bad news to trick their victims into opening bad files. My colleague Aleksandr Matrosov has alerted us to a spammed out message crammed with malicious links. Here’s a […]

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Andromeda Botnet Resurfaces

12

Mar

2013

The Andromeda botnet – first spotted in late 2011 – has recently resurfaced. This threat arrives via a familiar means: spammed messages with malicious attachments or links to compromised websites hosting Blackhole Exploit Kit (BHEK) code. Here is one spam message we saw recently:Figure 1. Sample spammed messageAndromeda itself is highly modular, and can incorporate […]

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Sinkholing of Trojan Downloader Zortob.B reveals fast growing malware threat

08

Mar

2013

Any malicious code that has infected 25,000 computers–60% of them in the United States–and achieved a spam rate of 80 million messages per hour, which in turn lead to 1,400 compromised websites, is a threat worthy of analysis. Such is the case with the malware we detect as Win32/TrojanDownloader.Zortob.B. This computer Trojan can steal credentials […]

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