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Diginotar: Iranians – The Real Target

05

Sep

2011

In this blog posting, we present concrete evidence that the recent compromise of Dutch Certification Authority Diginotar was used for spying on Iranian Internet users on a large scale.We found that Internet users in more than 40 different networks of ISPs and universities in Iran were confronted with rogue SSL certificates issued by Diginotar. Even […]

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Malicious Links on Twitter Lead to Bitcoin Mining

05

Sep

2011

Web Reputation Services (WRS) encountered spammed malicious shortened URLs on Twitter that appear to contain a JPEG file from a Facebook domain. The said .JPEG file is in fact not a picture file, but an executable file already detected by Trend Micro as WORM_KOLAB.SMQX. Searching for the picture file using Twitter‘s search function reveals an updated […]

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Bitcoin Mining Botnet Found with DDoS Capabilities

04

Sep

2011

Trend Micro recently came across a botnet that turns an infected system into an involuntary Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin is a digital currency that uses peer-to-peer (P2P) networks to track and verify transactions. Bitcoins are generated by a free Bitcoin miner application.The malware detected as BKDR_BTMINE.MNR installs the mining software onto affected systems. It uses the […]

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