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Home   »   malware update

JPEG Files Used For Targeted Attack Malware

  • Posted on:November 29, 2013 at 1:44 am
  • Posted in:Malware
  • Author:
    Jayronn Christian Bucu (Senior Research Engineer)
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We recently came across some malware of the SOGOMOT and MIRYAGO families that update themselves in an unusual way: they download JPEG files that contain encrypted configuration files/binaries. Not only that, we believe that this activity has been ongoing since at least the middle of 2010. A notable detail of the malware we came across…

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Tags: malware updateMIRYAGOSOGOMOTTargeted Attack

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