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May 2009 - Posts

Radio-Frequency Identification devices, is infection a reality? (Part 1)

Posted Thursday, May 28, 2009 11:55 AM by mmpc
Most people would be aware that biological viruses can be airborne, and can spread in this manner. For instance a common flu virus is able to survive in a fine mist of water droplets suspended in mid air until it lands on the next host. Luckily, not all Read More...
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Gamburl Gone Wild

Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 10:50 AM by mmpc
We’re seeing plenty of reports for a JavaScript redirector malware family that we call Gamburl; previous reports have called it Gumblar or Redir. These attacks seem to be coming from legitimate Web sites with pages that have been modified to contain this Read More...
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860,000 Computers Cleaned from Password Stealer Infections in One Week

Posted Wednesday, May 20, 2009 4:15 PM by mmpc
This month’s MSRT shows the following top ten most prevalent threat families as of May 19. The newly added and blogged rogue family, Win32/Winwebsec , is ranked at #17 with 34,792 infected machines. Family Most Significant Category Detections Infected Read More...
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Recession, Music, and Wimad

Posted Friday, May 15, 2009 4:05 PM by mmpc
Nowadays almost everyone is affected by the recession in one way or another. More and more people try to save money. Instead of buying licensed songs in CD form or from reputable online services, some people prefer to download songs via P2P or do a direct Read More...
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MSRT Tackles Another Rogue

Posted Wednesday, May 13, 2009 11:56 PM by mmpc
This month’s addition to the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) is a rogue security program called Trojan:Win32/Winwebsec . In most ways Winwebsec is virtually the same as most other rogues. It is often distributed through fake online scanner web Read More...
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Where is Waledac - Episode II

Posted Thursday, May 07, 2009 5:07 PM by mmpc
The Spambot Whilst Win32/Waledac is probably best known for the ability to send spam, it can also download and execute arbitrary files. In addition to using this downloading mechanism to update itself, Waledac can also download other malware. The MMPC Read More...
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Closing In on Open Relay Mail Servers

Posted Tuesday, May 05, 2009 5:25 PM by mmpc
About four months ago some new colleagues in the security business arrived in our Dublin office. They are part of Microsoft Anti-spam team and it is our pleasure to have them here :) The Dublin Spam team recently told us that almost every week, Microsoft Read More...
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MSRT and an Update of Worms in the Wild

Posted Monday, May 04, 2009 4:40 PM by mmpc
On April 14th, Microsoft released the latest update to the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool . This month as you know from Scott Molenkamp’s blog post , we added Win32/Waledac . In fact, of the top 5 families, worms make up 3 of the slots: Win32/Taterf Read More...
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