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Win32/Morto – Made in China, now with PE file infection

15

Nov

2012

In July 2012, our virus laboratory came across what we first thought was a new family of malware. The threat spread by infecting Portable Executable or PE files used by Windows, but this malware also infected systems through remote desktop and network shares. After further analysis, we realized we were dealing with a new version […]

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All copy and paste makes Jack a bored boy

31

Oct

2012

We recently came across what appeared to be a new sample, but was actually part of malware discovered in 2010. This new-old sample is built from publicly available source code and, like many of its kind, is frequently rebranded. Because of all the changes that malware authors have made, we have detection for each customized […]

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Skype Users Targeted with Ransomware and Click Fraud

08

Oct

2012

The infection that’s still spreading across users of Skype has taken an interesting twist: ransomware and click fraud. Skype users tempted to follow the latest set of infection links will end up with a zipfile on their PC. Here’s an example of the rogue links still being pinged around: Clicking the link will download a […]

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