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Nasty Trojan infects 100 hosts in sixty minutes

08

Apr

2013

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web has gained control over a botnet created with BackDoor.Bulknet.739 that, on average, is infecting as many as 100 computers per hour. The Trojan facilitates the sending of massive volumes of spam from infected computers. BackDoor.Bulknet.739 mainly targets machines located in Italy, France, Turkey, the USA, Mexico and Thailand. The first […]

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Malicious Spam Emails Target Nightclub Disaster in Santa Maria

29

Jan

2013

Tweet Symantec Security Response has observed that spammers are distributing malicious emails that attempt to lure users into viewing a video of the incident that killed 233 people recently in a horrific tragedy at a popular nightclub in Santa Maria, Brazil. The malicious email is in Portuguese and invites unsuspecting users to click on a […]

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Multi-platform Backdoor Lurks in Colombian Transport Site

09

Jul

2012

We recently came across a compromised Colombian Transport website where the malware author utilizes social engineering by displaying a signed applet upon visiting the page.Here is what is shown if visited using Windows:And using MacOS:The JAR file checks if the user’s machine is running in Windows, Mac or Linux then downloads the appropriate files for […]

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