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Mayachok Hooks INT8 to Dodge Emulators

06

Feb

2013

Many new variants of the same bootkits are created simply to avoid detection. Bitdefender anti-malware researchers Cristian Istrate and Marius Tivadar have created a small write-up on the evolution and current status of the Mayachok bootkit: The first version started with its malicious code placed directly in the 15 sectors following the Boot Sector (variant […]

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Labs Paper Looks ‘Inside the World of the Citadel Trojan’

01

Feb

2013

Zeus “banking” malware and its variants have been making headlines in recent months. One variant, the Citadel Trojan, has now taken the spotlight with the news of its withdrawal from the open crimeware market.Recently the author of Citadel, Aquabox, has been banned from a large online forum that sells malware and other services to cybercriminals. […]

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Upswing in Ransomware Activity

28

Jan

2013

As we predicted toward the end of last year, we are once again seeing an upswing in ransomware activity in 2013. The ransomware extortion scam has been in existence now for a number of years but its popularity among cybercriminals has grown over the last two years and it continues to indiscriminately plague computer users […]

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