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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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Doctor Web-the leading Russian anti-virus vendor-successfully implements its Origins TracingT technology to eliminate threats to Android. This unique technology significantly reduces virus databases size at no cost to the protection quality-a very important feature for mobile devices.The conventional detection technique requires a unique signature for each malicious file, so an anti-virus can recognize such a […]

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You might think it strange, but the creation of viruses and malware isn't illegal in most jurisdictions. Most virus-writers have been prosecuted on secondary grounds such as unauthorized access or modification, malicious damage and so on. More recent malware authors, botmasters and such may also fall foul of similar issues, or other criminal activities such as fraud or […]

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