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Last week, we noticed thousands of malware files in the wild that employ a simple phishing attack by modifying the hosts file on Windows systems. What’s interesting, however, is the technique chosen by the malware authors to distribute their payload. The samples in question (Example MD5: 34d9b42bfd64c6f752fe27eef8d80c5f) are packaged in a ZIP file along with […]

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Another spam run promoting “acid free coffee“, but this time the spammers are trying a trick to avoid detection.From:      “Acid Free Coffee” [[email protected]]Subject:      Acid Free CoffeeI just discovered this amazing coffee. Its incredibly smooth and rich like nothing I have ever tasted before. Google Acid Free Coffee or click here http://tinyurl.com/6otas83 to search […]

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Earlier, we discussed Win32/Carberp, a malware family included in the November release of the Malicious Software Removal Tool. In this post, we discuss another included malware, Win32/Cridex. Win32/Cridex is a relatively new family; we discovered its first variant in the wild in August 2011. This trojan is primarily downloaded and installed by other malware, detected […]

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