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New worm infects removable drives.

04

Jun

2013

Yet another worm that infects removable drives was discovered. The Win32/SillyAutorun.FTW was recently found in the wild. The worm is written with Microsoft Visual Studio and uses injection engine – worm’s code overwrites the original code in memory. When it runs on infected machine, it firstcopies itself to %ApplicationData%\E-73473-3674-74335\msnrsmsn.exe; where %ApplicationData% is application data folder […]

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Travnet Botnet Controls Victims With Remote Admin Tool

14

May

2013

The malicious binary behind the Travnet botnet has been updated. The new code has a new compression algorithm, steals the list of running processes, adds new file extensions to its list of files to steal, and has improved its control commands. Also, after the malware has uploaded the stolen files on its remote server, the […]

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AVG Threat Update: Week 46

15

Nov

2012

1. Scammers quickly exploit Hurricane Sandy disasterEmail scammers quickly jumped to take advantage of the effort to aid communities in the northeastern U.S. hit by super storm Sandy last week. Sadly, such scam emails that impersonate charities such as the Red Cross are an expected part of the aftermath of any disaster that makes world […]

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