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Microsoft Malware Protection Center
When imitation isn’t a form of flattery
Posted
3 months ago
by
msft-mmpc
When I was at school (many, many years ago…) a teacher once told me that if someone copies you, it's a sign of flattery. Well, right now there are numerous "companies" copying us, but we are far from flattered. For some time now, rogue security...
Microsoft Malware Protection Center
Independent social welfare site hacked to serve malware?
Posted
4 months ago
by
msft-mmpc
We received a submission from one of our customers that downloaded some suspicious files from a certain website. We checked the files, confirmed that they are actually malicious and added detection for them as Trojan:BAT/Delosc.A . Everything seemed normal...
Microsoft Malware Protection Center
A different breed of downloader
Posted
4 months ago
by
msft-mmpc
In our everyday world, we sometimes make use of thin clients , which don't have a lot of functionality but are easy to maintain, as their functionality is based on data they receive from remote servers. Malware authors have adopted a similar technique...
Microsoft Malware Protection Center
Fake Seattle traffic ticket notification leads to malware
Posted
4 months ago
by
msft-mmpc
Our partners at the City of Seattle sent us a warning today about a phishing campaign which targets users very close to home -- specifically, Seattle Washington. They're seeing spam mail circulating that claims to be from Seattle Department of Motor Vehicles...
Microsoft Malware Protection Center
Plenty to complain about with faux BBB spam
Posted
4 months ago
by
msft-mmpc
I was recently having a conversation online in a forum about online reputation and about refuting false claims posted on customer complaint sites. In this particular conversation I was having, the person was falsely accused of bad business practices....
Microsoft Malware Protection Center
January '12 MSRT: Win32/Sefnit
Posted
4 months ago
by
mmpc2
The January 2012 edition of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) includes detection and removal of the Win32/Sefnit family of trojans. This trojan family moderates and redirects web browser search engine results for Bing , Yahoo! and Google...
Microsoft Malware Protection Center
Are You Beta Testing Malware pt 2: Dissecting Fynloski's Obfuscation
Posted
4 months ago
by
msft-mmpc
This post is part two of two. In our previous post , we came across a couple of files that used some popular games as part of its social engineering technique. One of the files, which was named "diablo3-crack.exe" (after Diablo the video game series...
Microsoft Malware Protection Center
Are you beta testing malware?
Posted
4 months ago
by
msft-mmpc
This post is part one of two. Popular games are often used by malware writers as social engineering bait as documented in previous blogs (" Dota Players Own3d " and " Keeping Kerrigan From Infection "). So, with a watchful eye for anything related...
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