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July 2012 virus activity review: the summer lull and a new threat to Mac OS

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Aug

2012

July 2012 saw an increased number of system infections by blocker Trojans; at the same time, because one of the largest BackDoor.Blackenergy botnets was brought down, spam traffic declined significantly. At the end of the month, Doctor Web discovered a cross-platform Trojan, dubbed BackDoor.DaVinci.1, targeting both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It should be […]

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New Android Malware Comes Bundled with Real Opera Mini

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Jul

2012

Avid readers of this blog can attest that we have been documenting a number of noteworthy and malicious binaries affecting smartphones, and those running on Android, specifically, are taking most of the brunt from these threats. One malware we have featured is called OpFake, a family of Trojans posing as a free app, which are […]

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We’ve got our eye on Eyestye

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Jul

2012

Back in October 2011, we began to remove Eyestye variants using the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) in an effort to prevent the proliferation of this botnet. Today, we published a detailed MMPC Threat Report on this family. The report provides an in-depth analysis of how Win32/EyeStye works and the telemetry we have on its […]

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