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Flamer: Highly Sophisticated and Discreet Threat Targets the Middle East

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May

2012

Over the past few days, we have been analyzing a potential new threat that has been operating discreetly for at least two years. We were contacted about this threat by Crysys who have released their own analysis. (The threat is referred to by CrySys as 'Skywiper'). There are indications that W32.Flamer is also the same […]

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W32.Duqu: The Precursor to the Next Stuxnet

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Oct

2011

On October 14, 2011, we were alerted to a sample that appeared to be very similar to Stuxnet by a research lab with strong international connections. They named the threat Duqu [dyü-kyü] because it creates files with the file name prefix “~DQ”. They provided us with samples recovered from computer systems located in Europe and […]

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Operation b79 (Kelihos) and Additional MSRT September Release

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Sep

2011

For the month of September, Microsoft is adding the Win32/Kelihos family to a second release of the Malicious Software Removal Tool. This additional release is to support the most recent action in Project MARS- Operation b79 which targets the Kelihos botnet. Operation b79 builds on the successes of the Rustock and Waledac takedowns. This operation […]

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