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A Rogue by any other name…

02

Mar

2012

Rogue:Win32/FakePAV reappeared about two weeks ago after a brief hiatus and since then we’ve been seeing variants with new names for themselves just about every day. The latest versions call themselves names like “Windows Threats Destroyer”, “Windows Firewall Constructor”, “Windows Attacks Preventor” and “Windows Basic Antivirus”. You can see some examples of these iterations below. […]

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Extracting the fare

15

Feb

2012

When malware is found lurking on a system, quite often it isn’t acting alone. Once malware distributors have control of a system, they will do everything they can to compromise the machine and the user for maximum gain — for instance, hijacking a browser’s search results, or using rogue security software to extract payments from affected […]

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Facebook Fakebook: New Trends in Carberp Activity

26

Jan

2012

This month we discovered some new facts relating to Win32/Carberp trojan activity. We have spent a lot of time writing about Carberp already, but interesting information is still coming to light. The first interesting information to attract our attention recently concerned stealing money from Facebook users. Before then we hadn’t seen Carberp activity targeting social […]

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