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Win32.Rmnet.12 botnet exceeds three million hosts

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Jun

2012

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is reporting that the Win32.Rmnet.12 network, monitored by its virus analysts since September 2011, exceeded three million infected hosts in June. The Win32.Rmnet.12 file infector could pose a serious threat, because it can steal passwords stored by popular FTP clients and perform backdoor tasks. In mid-April 2012 Doctor Web reported […]

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American Red Cross spam links to Paypal.com

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Jun

2012

by Dave Michmerhuizen & Luis Chapetti – Security Researchers Spammers often take advantage of a wide variety of recognizable brands; Microsoft, UPS, banks, even the FBI. Whenever a large natural disaster strikes, such as the recent Colorado wildfires, spammers diversify and send donation emails using the brands of well known charities. A good example of […]

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Trojan caught on camera shows CAPTCHA is still a security issue

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Jan

2012

In a series of blogs a few years back, we covered how malware could abuse and circumvent online services that use CAPTCHA tests as part of their security (1 2). In this blog, we take a look at a recent malware variant from the wild caught on camera that shows CAPTCHA tests used by some online […]

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