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Backdoor Simda is known for about 3 years. Recently a new major outbreak occurred. The new variant of the backdoor is downloaded from certain sites containing video. The frames in the video propose to download new version of Flash Player able to play a movie in newer flash format. The backdoor executable is downloaded and […]

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A few weeks ago, we observed a spear phishing campaign targeting groups in the aerospace and defense industry. We identified at least 12 different organizations targeted in this attack. These organizations include aviation, air traffic control, and government and defense contractors. Figure 1. Spear phishing email targeting aerospace and defense industry In choosing their targets, the attackers […]

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In the June ’12 installment of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), we take on two threat families – Win32/Kuluoz and Win32/Cleaman. This post includes information about Kuluoz as we’ll discuss Cleaman later this month. Win32/Kuluoz is a multi-component trojan family that that attempts to steal passwords that are stored in certain applications, and […]

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