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The Flame worm (detected by ESET as Win32/Flamer) is one of the most interesting targeted threats of this year. Although several articles about it have been published, many of the facts about the internal structure of its main module (mssecmgr.ocx) have not been disclosed yet. In this blog post we want to shed light on […]

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W32.Morto first surfaced in August 2011 causing a stir when it targeted weak passwords on Remote Desktop Protocol Connections in order to propagate across networks. W32.Morto.B, the new variant, now has the ability to infect executable files on a compromised computer. Let’s take a look at the infected files in a bit more detail. Figure […]

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Deep inside one of Stuxnet’s configuration blocks, a certain 8 bytes variable holds a number which, if read as a date, points to June 24th, 2012. This is actually the date when Stuxnet’s LNK replication sub-routines stop working and the worm stops infecting USB memory sticks. The specific variable which keeps the “time of death” […]

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