Trojan in Counterfeit Copies of Windows 7 Builds Botnet
This latest mass infection is through a vector I really don’t understand, see as though you can legitimately download Windows 7 from Microsoft. I guess people just prefer BitTorrent downloads to HTTP...
View ArticleNasty Trojan Zeus Evades Antivirus Software
This is one nasty piece of malware, seems like it’s working on a low level as per rootkits, there aren’t many technical details but it may well be operating on a Ring 0 level. The level of detection by...
View ArticleWindows 7 UAC (User Access Control) Ineffective Against Malware
There have been a few stories about Windows 7, even one about Windows 7 UAC before and now it’s officially on sale I’d expect there to be many more. As always malware and mass infections is a numbers...
View ArticleFacebook Used By Whitewell Trojan To Communicate
Facebook has had it’s fair share of security woes and the latest is the discovery of a new Trojan that uses Facebook to communicate. Interesting that it’s using the Facebook notes feature to...
View ArticleEnergizer Duo USB Battery Charger Software Has Backdoor Trojan
There has been a number of interested stories lately especially related to hardware, the latest doing the rounds is this one where a seemingly innocuous USB battery charger has been installing some...
View ArticleChina Facing Problems With Android Handsets & Pre-installed Trojans
It seems like the Chinese are always coming up with inventive ways to scam people, this time the people in their own country. Android is of course growing quickly globally and China is no exception...
View ArticleDigital Underground Offering Cheap Botnets For Hire
Perhaps even the cyber-criminals are effected by the recent recession – botnets for hire are hitting rock-bottom rates starting at just $2. We reported back in April 2010 about the Texas Man Who...
View ArticleLinux Backdoor Fokirtor Injects Traffic Into SSH Protocol
Earlier this week we wrote about an Internet Explorer 0-day which used an in-memory drive by attack, which was pretty smart. Now another new type of malware (a backdoor in this case), this time...
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Pirated ‘Watch Dogs’ Game Made A Bitcoin Mining Botnet
Pretty smart idea this one, we wrote about Yahoo! spreading Bitcoin mining malware back in January, but we haven’t really seen any of that type of activity since then. But this, this is a much better...
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Pupy – Open-Source Remote Administration Tool AKA RAT
Pupy is an open-source remote administration tool (RAT), that is cross platform and has an embedded Python interpreter, allowing its modules to load Python packages from memory and transparently access...
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