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AVAST Software: Superglue site stuck with malware

11

Aug

2011

PRAGUE, Czech Republic, August 10, 2011 – The website of Super Glue Corporation (supergluecorp.com) makers of the world-famous adhesive, has been infected with malware. And after five days, this infection seemed to be sticking like glue.The infection was a Trojan JavaScript Redirector which takes visitors through a series of infected sites to the final location […]

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Wrong specifications [reloaded]

01

Jun

2011

I can confirm that we at the Virus Lab “love” product specifications and documentation. My recent experience shows a discrepancy between MSDN and the real behavior of VirtualAlloc. I’m currently revising and tweaking the memory management inside one of the emulators used in the avast! antivirus engine. The goal of my effort is to bring […]

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An unlikely couple: 64-bit rootkit and rogue AV for MacOS

16

May

2011

The Virus Lab recently came across a very interesting sample – a downloader containing two drivers and which downloads fake antivirus programs developed for both PC and Mac platforms. The malicious program is downloaded and installed using the BlackHole Exploit Kit. The latter contains exploits targeting vulnerabilities in JRE (CVE-2010-0886, CVE-2010-4452, CVE-2010-3552) and PDF. Both […]

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