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Encryption Trojan attacks Spain and France

13

Mar

2013

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web has registered an ongoing massive spread of the encryption malware Trojan.ArchiveLock across PCs outside Russia. The program, dubbed Trojan.ArchiveLock.20, is infecting increasingly more computers in France and Spain.Last August, Doctor Web issued a warning about Trojan.ArchiveLock encryption malware. This program uses the archiver WinRAR to encrypt files. To spread the […]

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Doctor Web offers help to users whose systems have been compromised by an archive-blocker Trojan

01

Aug

2012

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users about the large-scale spreading of a multi-component ransomware that has been dubbed Trojan.ArchiveLock.2. It uses the archiver WinRAR to make files inaccessible for users. Doctor Web’s analysts have found a way to recover a password to extract files compromised by certain versions of the Trojan horse. Trojan.ArchiveLock.2 […]

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edocinU edirrevO tfeL ot thgiR gnisU erawlaM (Malware Using Right to Left Override Unicode)

19

Aug

2011

According to our friends at Commtouch, malware using Right to Left Override (RLO) Unicode tricks have “resurfaced extensively in the past week”. Unicode character (U+202E) “reverses” text for languages that are traditionally read from right to left, and it’s a feature that can be used to obfuscate file names.We examined a sample a few days […]

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