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The Shylock “LNK” Awakening

29

Aug

2012

A new development observed in the sophisticated financial banking Trojan.Shylock highlights the ongoing evolution of this threat. Shylock, a threat first observed by Trusteer in September 2011, was named after a character in the Shakespeare play the ‘Merchant of Venice’ due to quotes from the play being found in the original binary code. Symantec has […]

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Special Delivery: Attack Toolkits Bring Malware to Your Door

11

Aug

2012

In the latest edition of the Threat Intelligence Report, we take a look at how Web attack toolkits are one of the largest risks to Internet security out there today. But unlike viruses, Trojans, and worms, they’re not a threat to an end-user in the traditional sense. Attack toolkits are more akin to a pizza […]

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Trojan.Milicenso: Infection through .htaccess Redirection

04

Jul

2012

Due to additional research of the Trojan.Milicenso threat (a.k.a “Printer Bomb”), we have determined that the threat is downloaded by an .htaccess redirection Web attack and that at least 4,000 websites have been compromised by the gang responsible for the threat. Redirection using the .htaccess fileThe .htaccess file is a configuration file for Web servers that […]

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