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Malware spammed out out as report for “tomorrow’s meeting”

Jul

2012

Have you received an email telling you not to forget to bring a report to a meeting being held tomorrow?Be on your guard.SophosLabs is intercepting a malware campaign that has been widely spammed out across the internet, using just such a disguise.Attached to the emails, which have a subject line of “Don’t forget about a […]

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Spreading the Flame: Skywiper Employs ‘Windows Update’

Jun

2012

Microsoft has issued Security Advisory 2718704, in which the company disclosed that it recently became aware of the Flamer/Skywiper threat, which uses certificates derived from the Microsoft Certificate Authority.The actual certificate in question was used to sign at least one of the attack components associated with the module in the Skywiper framework.This is how the […]

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Darkshell DDOS Botnet Evolves With Variants

Apr

2012

Darkshell is a distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnet targeting Chinese websites. It was found in 2011 and was first analyzed by Arbor Networks. McAfee Labs recently analyzed a few new samples that turned out to be variants of Darkshell, and we found extensive variations in network traffic and control commands.The Darkshell bot follows a […]

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