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Towering Qbot Certificates

28

Sep

2011

New stolen digital certificates are used by the multi-purpose backdoor Qbot. The criminals behind the Qbot trojan are certainly not inactive. As I mentioned in a blog post earlier this month, after a quiet summer we have seen a batch of new Qbot variants. An interesting fact is that the malicious binaries were digitally signed. […]

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Back to School Qbot, now Digitally Signed

08

Sep

2011

The authors of Win32/Qbot (a.k.a. Qakbot) are back with new variants of this infamous malware, and this time the binaries are digitally signed. Qbot is a multifunctional trojan that has had some significant impact in the past. It has also been around a while, with the first variants dating as far back as spring 2007, […]

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SSL certificate debacle includes CIA, MI6, Mossad and Tor

05

Sep

2011

Last week I wrote about the compromise of digital certificate authority DigiNotar. While the idea of over 250 false certificates being issued was scary, the number has grown to 531, including what could be intermediate signing certificates. This is really bad news. As DigiNotar is a “root” certificate, they can assign authority to intermediaries to […]

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