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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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2012 Security Trends

Dec

2011

2011 is coming to an end, so now it’s time to try to see what we have to expect for the next 12 months: Social networks: Social engineering techniques exploiting users’ weaknesses have become the leading attack method in social networks. Trending topics such as the Olympics or the next US Presidential elections will be […]

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A tale of grannies, Chinese herbs, Tom Cruise, Alureon and steganography

Sep

2011

I’ve been monitoring the development of a particular strain of Alureon since the start of August this year. The installer (detected as Trojan:Win32/Alureon.FE – cc9a8000f80b6aecee30375e3277292a725acbfb) is easily distinguishable from more prevalent strains such as Trojan:Win32/Alureon.DX by the use of PE resources to store each component. This particular installer is often downloaded by variants of Trojan:Win32/Fakesysdef […]

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