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JACKSBOT Has Some Dirty Tricks up Its Sleeves

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Oct

2012

Contrary to initial reports, JACKSBOT may not be as low risk as initially thought. We noted some JACKSBOT infection in the wild, indicating that the people behind this multiplatform malware are saving their best tricks for last.We analyzed the JACKSBOT backdoor family (specific detection name JAVA_JACKSBOT.A) that arrives as a Java application. Because it is […]

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Malware Targeting Windows and MAC OSX

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Apr

2012

Malware is getting more and more sophisticated as the days goes by. Windows platform is the usual target for infection of malware authors but this time they add one more target platform, Mac OSX. Recently, another Tibetan-themed malware has been discovered which takes advantage of a patched Java Vulnerability (CVE-2011-3544). When a user unknowingly visits […]

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AVG Community Powered Threat Report for second quarter 2011

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Jun

2011

AVG today presents “AVG Community Powered Threat Report – Q2 2011”, providing insight, background and analysis on the trends and developments in the global threat landscape. The report is based on the Community Protection Network traffic and data followed by research performed by AVG, over a three-month period. It provides an overview of web, mobile […]

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