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Jaaziel Carlos

Threat Response Engineer

MIRCOP Crypto-Ransomware Channels Guy Fawkes, Claims To Be The Victim Instead

  • Posted on:June 24, 2016
  • Posted in:Ransomware, Spam
  • Posted by:
    Jaaziel Carlos (Threat Response Engineer)
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Ransomware behavior has been the talk of the town. We have seen oddly long ransom payment deadlines from GOOPIC, password stealing capabilities from RAA, chat support from the latest JIGSAW variant, and all these are just incidents discovered this June. But among these new behaviors, we came across a truly unique behavior in MIRCOP crypto-ransomware.

Detected as RANSOM_MIRCOP.A, MIRCOP places the blame on users and does not give victims instructions on how to pay the ransom. In fact, it assumes that victims already know how to pay them back.

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Tags: crypto-ransomwaremacro malwarePowershell

ZBOT-UPATRE Far From Game Over, Uses Random Headers

  • Posted on:June 23, 2014
  • Posted in:Bad Sites, Botnets, Malware
  • Posted by:
    Jaaziel Carlos (Threat Response Engineer)
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TROJ_UPATRE, the most common malware threat distributed via spam, is known for downloading encrypted Gameover ZeuS onto affected systems. This ZeuS variant, in turn, is known for its use of peer-to-peer connections to its command-and-contol (C&C) servers.  This behavior has been known about since October 2013. We have observed that these specific ZeuS variants are now…

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Tags: C&C servercryptolockercybercriminalsdecryptionencryptiongameoverGoZ malwareMalwareNECURSUPATREXOR keyZBOTZeuSZZP0

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