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Crisis: The Advanced Malware

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Nov

2012

Over the past few months, we have blogged several times about OSX.Crisis and W32.Crisis. The Crisis malware is a highly advanced malware that has multiple infection vectors and a variety of information-stealing functions.Figure 1. The Crisis infection routineIt targets Windows and Mac operating systems as well as devices running Windows Mobile. It can also sneak […]

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JavaScript Worm on Steroids

11

Oct

2012

From time to time during the course of our work, we may discover a novel piece of malware. Whether it is a new technique to infect files, infecting virtual machines, or targeting specific documents, the possibilities are limited only by a malware author’s imagination. Such is the case with JS.Proslikefan. While malware can be created using […]

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New Crisis/MORCUT Malware Mounts in Virtual Machines

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Aug

2012

We were alerted to reports of a Crisis/MORCUT malware that supposedly spreads on VMware virtual machines. Our previous post about Crisis/MORCUT cites that it is a backdoor found to specifically target Mac OSX systems. This time around, the Crisis/MORCUT we have on our hands runs in Windows, and interestingly, mounts on virtual disks.Currently, arrival for […]

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