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A Rogue by any other name…

02

Mar

2012

Rogue:Win32/FakePAV reappeared about two weeks ago after a brief hiatus and since then we’ve been seeing variants with new names for themselves just about every day. The latest versions call themselves names like “Windows Threats Destroyer”, “Windows Firewall Constructor”, “Windows Attacks Preventor” and “Windows Basic Antivirus”. You can see some examples of these iterations below. […]

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Are You Beta Testing Malware pt 2: Dissecting Fynloski’s Obfuscation

09

Jan

2012

This post is part two of two. In our previous post, we came across a couple of files that used some popular games as part of its social engineering technique. One of the files, which was named “diablo3-crack.exe” (after Diablo the video game series) is currently detected as Backdoor:Win32/Fynloski.A. It piqued our interest because we’re […]

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Criminals gain control over Mac with BackDoor.Olyx

23

Jun

2011

Doctor Web-the leading Russian developer of anti-virus software -informs users that its virus analysts have discovered a new threat to computers running Mac OS X. BackDoor.Olyx is the second known backdoor for the operating system. If a machine is compromised by the malware, attackers get an opportunity to covertly control the computer. The backdoor receives […]

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