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Don’t fall for Folstart

13

Nov

2012

We use thumb drives in different ways – usually to transfer files from one computer to another. When we create folders in thumb drives, we have a certain level of confidence that the folder isn’t malicious or doesn’t contain malware. Unfortunately, this assumption is not always true. For the month of November, we added the Folstart […]

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Worm Posts on SNS Sites and Wipes out Rivals

19

May

2012

W32.Wergimog is a worm that attempts to spread through removable drives and opens a back door. When I looked into its variants, I found an interesting sample, which I named W32.Wergimog.B. Both samples are based on the same source code, but the .B variant contains even more interesting functionality that I would like to detail […]

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DNSChanger – Cleaning Up 4 Million Infected Hosts

02

Mar

2012

The internet is full of infected hosts. Let’s just make a conservative guesstimate that there are more than 40 million infected victim hosts and malware serving “hosts” connected to the internet at any one time, including both traditional computing devices, network devices and smartphones. That’s a lot of resources churning out cybercrime, viruses, worms, exploits, […]

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