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Spyware Hides Behind Stolen Opera Digital Certificate

28

Jun

2013

Opera recently disclosed that attackers compromised their network and stole at least one expired Opera code signing certificate. The attackers then used this certificate to sign their malware, which tricked the target system and (even) security software into thinking that the file was legitimate.We obtained a sample of the said malware (which is detected as […]

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DaRK DDoSseR Leads to Gh0st RAT

09

Nov

2012

The malware BKDR_ADDNEW, better known as “DaRK DDoSseR” in the underground, is a tool that provides distributed denial of service (DDOS) capability combined with password stealing functionality. The tool costs $30 and has been available for several years.Recently, our friends at FireEye reported seeing computers that had been compromised by BKDR_ADDNEW and later updated with […]

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They’re here: Threats Leveraging Windows 8

01

Nov

2012

The recent launch of Windows 8 had people talking about this new OS. Naturally, cybercriminals are grabbing this chance to distribute threats leveraging Windows 8 and raise terror among users – just in time for Halloween.We were alerted to two threats that leverage the release of this new OS. The first one is a typical […]

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