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Can we believe our eyes?

11
Aug
2011

Several days ago, one of our customers submitted a sample (SHA1: fbe71968d4c5399c2906b56d9feadf19a35beb97, detected as TrojanDropper:Win32/Vundo.L). This trojan hijacks  the hosts “vk.com” and “vkontakte.ru” (both social networking sites in Russia)and redirects them to 92.38.209.252, but achieves this in an unusual way. A common  method used to hijack a website and redirect it to a site of […]

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Trojanized Flash Player haunts Vkontakte users

12
May
2011

A Russian site is urging users to upgrade their security software:xtot.ruIn English:The file is hosted on that same site at xtot.ru/install_flash_player.exeUpon installing this ‘Flash Player update’ the following installation screens appear:Although it looks like the real thing, it is not. Hackers took the original file and added their own malicious code to it.This is not that obvious though […]

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