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In July 2012, our virus laboratory came across what we first thought was a new family of malware. The threat spread by infecting Portable Executable or PE files used by Windows, but this malware also infected systems through remote desktop and network shares. After further analysis, we realized we were dealing with a new version […]

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There are reports of a new variant of Mac malware. We are aware of the attack and our customers are already protected. It’s a minor variant of Revir.C. For the payload, it’s basically still the same Imuler variant we wrote about back in September. Most probably it was rebuilt in an effort to avoid detection. […]

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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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