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Rise of the social bots

Jun

2013

?Malware authors and distributors follow the money. When you consider the growing popularity of social networking websites, it should come as no surprise that malware continues to maintain its presence in this area. Every year we are spending a growing proportion of our time online using social media like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. What does this […]

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Gapz and Redyms droppers based on Power Loader code

Mar

2013

Power Loader is a special bot builder for making downloaders for other malware families and yet another example of specialization and modularity in malware production. The first time Power Loader was detected was in September 2012, using the family detection name Win32/Agent.UAW. This bot builder has been used for developing Win32/Gapz droppers (Win32/Gapz: steps of […]

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Digging Into the Sandbox-Escape Technique of the Recent PDF Exploit

Feb

2013

As promised in our previous blog entry for the recent Adobe Reader PDF zero-day attack, we now offer more technical details on this Reader “sandbox-escape” plan. In order to help readers understand what’s going on there, we first need to provide some background.Adobe Reader’s Sandbox ArchitectureThe Adobe Reader sandbox consists of two processes: a high-privilege […]

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