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Recently I wrote a blog post about a legitimate website spreading Sirefef malware. Then I continued with a deeper analysis and noticed that it uses an interesting cryptor.Malware authors spread many new variants of malware every day. These variants often look completely different at the first glance. That’s why regular updates of your antivirus is […]

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In the last couple of years a number of new bootkits have appeared in the wild targeting the Microsoft Windows platform. Among the most prominent examples are TDL4, Olmasco and Rovnix. These each employ different ways of infecting the system by means of modifying either the MBR (Master Boot Record) or the VBR/IPL (Volume Boot […]

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Users may have noticed an extended shut down update process on their Windows based machines this month after Microsoft released November’s Patch Tuesday update to address a total of 19 vulnerabilities.Of the vulnerabilities fixed, four were rated as “critical” and these were located in Internet Explorer 9 (patch MS12-071) as well as “all” versions of […]

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