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Flashfake Mac OS X botnet confirmed

06

Apr

2012

Earlier this week, Dr.Web reported the discovery of a Mac OS X botnet Flashback (Flashfake). According to their information, the estimated size of this botnet is more than 500, 000 infected Mac machines. We followed up with an analysis of the latest variant of this bot, Trojan-Downloader.OSX.Flashfake.ab. It is being distributed via infected websites as […]

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Java Drive by download attack

13

Dec

2011

Recently I blogged about how attackers are forcing users to download fake codecs to spread malicious content. I’ve also encountered across another drive by download attack vector, which uses Java applets to execute downloaded malicious content on the victim’s machine. Download and execution of malicious content happens without user interaction. Let’s take look at a […]

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Delivery Failure Revisited: Win32/TrojanDownloader.Agent.QXN returns

07

Dec

2011

The Trojan downloader malware Win32/TrojanDownloader.Agent.QXN that showed up in my email about 10 days ago made a return visit today, posing as a pair of emails from the United States Postal Service. The first time the malware showed up it was dressed up, as a package delivery receipt from Canada Post. But this time the […]

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