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August 2008 - Posts

A Normal Day at the Office

Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 4:03 PM by mmpc
(Never ending story...) We arrived a bit early at the office the other day. It was a beautiful sunny day, you know, typical weather when you have to work :D Soon after arriving, we stumbled upon what became an interesting case. It was an executable file Read More...
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Year Old Worm Weasels its Way Aboard I.S.S.

Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2008 11:05 PM by mmpc
According to several reports across the 'net, NASA revealed in a log report that a worm was discovered on some laptops aboard the International Space Station. The worm, known by some as Gammima which we call Worm:Win32/Taterf.gen!C , is at least a year Read More...
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Manufacturing Fear

Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 5:55 PM by mmpc
We’ve seen some particularly nasty malware recently that has prompted me to think about how people react to scare tactics and fear appeals. The kind of malicious software I’m thinking of in particular here is generally referred to as ‘rogue security software’, Read More...
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Current Events Spark Round of Malware

Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 4:45 PM by mmpc
Attackers are busy monitoring current events so they can distribute malware that appears relevant, such as sending spam message containing links to malware with contextual references to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, or other current events. We recently Read More...
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Another Malware Rides the 2008 Olympics Wave

Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 2:05 PM by mmpc
We recently noticed a new malware threat that is spreading via email. The email contains a malicious ‘CHM’ (Microsoft Compiled HTML Help) file attachment which displays a document about free speech and media freedom during the Olympics in Chinese and Read More...
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MMPC Encyclopedia Top 5: Mostly Vundo

Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008 3:39 PM by mmpc
The following is a list of our top five most commonly viewed encyclopedia pages last month: TrojanSpy:Win32/Bancos.gen!A Win32/Vundo Trojan:Win32/Vundo.gen!H Trojan:Win32/Vundo.gen!P Win32/Alcan It looks like our readers are really interested in Win32/Vundo Read More...
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MMPC @ Gamefest 2008

Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 9:35 PM by mmpc
I had the privilege of presenting a couple of weeks ago at Gamefest 2008 —a Microsoft sponsored technical conference targeted at the games industry. I spoke about game password stealers- what they do, which games are targeted by which families and the Read More...
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Malware rides the wave of 2008 Beijing Olympics

Posted Saturday, August 09, 2008 12:56 PM by mmpc
The great anticipation that awaited the Olympics is matched by the anticipation for malware to make use of the event to infect users. The first executable malware taking advantage of this event has also arrived. The malware is disguised as a screen saver Read More...
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MSRT on CAPTCHA breaking malware

Posted Friday, August 08, 2008 1:48 PM by mmpc
A CAPTCHA (IPA: /ˈkæptʃə/) is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer. The process involves one computer (a server) asking a user to complete a simple test which the computer is able Read More...
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My Favourite Time of the Year

Posted Tuesday, August 05, 2008 2:41 PM by mmpc
It's when a VX group folds, and it has happened again. Twice, even. The day before the "much anticipated" ;-) EOF-DoomRiderz-rRlf group zine was released, rRlf announced that they were disbanding. This is something that we could have guessed anyway, based Read More...
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Horst: (Something Old, Something New)

Posted Friday, August 01, 2008 6:38 PM by mmpc
The latest version of the MSRT was released on the 8th of July. The newest family selected for inclusion was " Horst ". The Horst family is made up of a number of different components. Each of which, can perform different tasks. Tasks include downloading, Read More...
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