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The malware news today is all about new targeted, high-tech, military grade malicious code such as Stuxnet, Duqu and Flamer that have grabbed headlines. So imagine our surprise when an AutoCAD worm, written in AutoLISP, the scripting language that AutoCAD uses, suddenly showed a big spike in one country on ESET’s LiveGridR two months ago, […]

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We have recently come across a new wave of W32.Xpaj.B samples. We first met this complex file infector virus in 2009, and since then the threat has been operating and mounting an ad-clicking scam in order to generate revenue. After a few months of rest, the threat seems to be back.   Figure 1. Increase […]

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Looking back on traffic from this week, I noticed a large spike in the number of companies accessing free TLD / Dynamic DNS related sites.  Digging deeper it appears that a malware campaign tied to massive WordPress compromises was the culprit.  This is a very widespread malware campaign that remains live / on-going and is […]

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