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Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 14:00:41 +0000

Snake, also known as Turla and Uroburos, is backdoor malware that has been around and infecting Windows systems since at least 2008. It is thought to be Russian governmental malware and on Windows is highly-sophisticated. It was even seen infecting Linux systems in 2014. Now, it appears to have been ported to Mac.

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Tags: Adobe Flash Player Apple mac Mac Trojan malware Snake trojan Turla Uroburos

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May 1, 2017 admin

Another OSX.Dok dropper found installing new backdoor

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Mon, 01 May 2017 18:16:41 +0000

On Friday a sophisticated Mac Trojan was discovered, called OSX.Dok, which installs malware designed to intercept all HTTP and HTTPS traffic. This morning, Adam Thomas, a Malwarebytes researcher, found a variant of the OSX.Dok dropper that behaves altogether differently and installs a completely different payload.

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Tags: Apple Dokument.app mac mac malware Mac Trojan malware OSX.Dok trojan

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April 28, 2017 admin

New OSX.Dok malware intercepts web traffic

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 18:00:07 +0000

Most Mac malware tends to be unsophisticated. Although it has some rather unpolished and awkward aspects, a new piece of Mac malware, dubbed OSX.Dok, breaks out of that typical mold.

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Tags: Apple Dokument.zip mac macOS malware OSX.Dok phishing

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April 26, 2017 admin

A story of fonts by the EITest HoeflerText campaign

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 19:45:58 +0000

The HoeflerText campaign is known for a fake font download that delivers the Spora ransomware. But did you know it also uses special characters in the dropper’s file name?

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Tags: chrome eitest font hoeflertext malware ransomware Spora Ransomware

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April 24, 2017 admin

Quick Heal will continue to support Windows Vista users

Credit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 12:05:20 +0000

As of April 11, 2017, Microsoft has stopped supporting Windows Vista. Quick Heal, however, will continue to support this OS. Read more about this from the post below. What does it mean for Vista users? When we say that Windows Vista is out of support now, it does not mean…

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April 21, 2017 admin

Elusive Moker Trojan is back

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 18:44:58 +0000

We finally have gotten our hands on a sample of Moker Trojan (that was discovered in 2015). This article will be a deep dive in its capabilities.

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Tags: EK exploit kit malware Moker rat RIG EK trojan

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April 21, 2017 admin

Cosmos Bank website compromised with RIG Exploit Kit which drops Cerber Ransomware

Credit to Author: Pradeep Kulkarni| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 13:22:25 +0000

Update: The incident has been taken care of by Cosmos Bank and its website (URL) is now clean and safe to use. Compromising popular websites has become a common strategy for attackers to spread infection in a widespread fashion. Attackers exploit unpatched vulnerabilities present on web servers in order to compromise…

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April 20, 2017 admin