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AutoIt Used To Spread Malware and Toolsets

May

2013

AutoIt is a very flexible coding language that’s been used since 1999 by coders looking for a fast, easy, and flexible scripting language in Windows. From simple scripts that change text files to scripts that perform mass downloads with complex GUIs, AutoIt is an easy-to-learn language that allows for quick development. The trend for malicious […]

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Win32/Cridex: Java pushes Cyprus into a Blackhole

Mar

2013

Sadly, Cyprus has been the source of bad news lately. Even sadder, nothing travels faster than bad news, and bad people are all too ready to use bad news to trick their victims into opening bad files. My colleague Aleksandr Matrosov has alerted us to a spammed out message crammed with malicious links. Here’s a […]

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The Hunt For Red October

Jan

2013

“Red October” in the title of Tom Clancy’s bestselling novel referred to a Soviet submarine whose silent propulsion system made it undetectable to sonar. It’s a fitting name for the sophisticated cyber-espionage network that has recently been identified after collecting high-level data from governments, embassies and diplomatic networks, energy companies, and other sensitive systems for […]

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