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Fiesta Exploit Kit Spreading Crypto-Ransomware – Who Is Affected?

  • Posted on:April 20, 2015 at 2:56 am
  • Posted in:Malware, Ransomware
  • Author:
    Brooks Li and Joseph C. Chen (Threats Analysts)
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Exploits kits have long been used to deliver threats to users, but they seem to have gone retro: it was recently being used to deliver fake antivirus malware. We closely monitor exploit kit activity because of their widespread use (we discussed their use in malvertising recently), so it was no great surprise to see the Fiesta…

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Tags: crypto-ransomwarefake antivirusFiesta exploit kit

Keygens For Engineering, Scientific Software Leads To FAKEAV

  • Posted on:January 23, 2014 at 10:25 pm
  • Posted in:Bad Sites, Malware
  • Author:
    Jeffrey Bernardino (Threat Researcher)
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In the past few weeks, we have seen increasing numbers of infections related to the TROJ_GATAK, especially in the North American region. This malware family is not particularly well known; we discussed it in 2012 in relation with file infectors that were hitting Dutch users. In checking for its possible causes, we’ve found the malware…

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Tags: fake antivirusFakeAVGoogle Talkkey generatorpirated softwareskype

August Malware Roundup

  • Posted on:September 14, 2008 at 9:55 pm
  • Posted in:Malware
  • Author:
    Jasper Pimentel (Advanced Threats Researcher)
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Notable Malware WORM_KOOBFACE.E, WORM_KOOBFACE.D These worms used the famous social networking site Facebook in their propagation routines. While executing on an affected user’s system, these worms search for cookies related to Facebook. Once a match is found, the worms access the user’s Facebook profile using the credentials contained in the cookie files. The worms then…

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Tags: Facebookfake antivirusMalwareSEO poisoning

Uncovering VUNDO

  • Posted on:June 9, 2008 at 12:44 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Author:
    Loucif Kharouni (Senior Threat Researcher)
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A piece of VUNDO history: the first variant we have seen in the wild was TROJ_VUNDO.A (Sept 6, 2004, almost 4 years ago). It is capable of monitoring IE activities such as visited Web sites and sending data to a remote Web site. These data are used for advertising and marketing activities. Nobody expected it…

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