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January 2009 - Posts

Centralized Information About The Conficker Worm

Posted Thursday, January 22, 2009 9:10 PM by mmpc
Since the time Microsoft released security update MS08-067 , we have released information about MS08-067 exploits and specifically about the Conficker worm in our malware encyclopedia and in multiple blog posts for example here . This blog provides a Read More...
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Banload – The Other January Addition to MSRT

Posted Thursday, January 22, 2009 9:00 PM by mmpc
This month’s MSRT release includes signatures for Win32/Banload . This family of malware is known to download and execute variants of both Win32/Bancos and Win32/Banker – which are both malware families of password stealing trojans. Typically, they attempt Read More...
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Waledac Trojan Hosted by Fake Obama Website

Posted Monday, January 19, 2009 5:00 PM by mmpc
“Now that Inauguration Day is upon the US, malware authors have a new spate of social engineering tricks up their sleeve.” We've seen Barack Obama's name used by malware authors for malevolent purposes before, during the campaign and leading up to the Read More...
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MSRT Released Today Addressing Conficker and Banload

Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2009 10:00 AM by mmpc
Back on Oct. 23, 2008, Microsoft released a critical security update for Windows: MS08-067 . Isolated attacks existed at the time of the bulletin release and in our blog we strongly recommended installing the security update as quickly as possible. Later, Read More...
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Zlob: From Russia with Luck?

Posted Friday, January 09, 2009 4:00 PM by mmpc
A group of French researchers known as 'Malware Analysis & Diagnostic' picked up on a Win32/Zlob variant which contained a follow up to a blog post we made in October. It’s interesting that the malware author confirmed that he’s in Russia, and it Read More...
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