Category Archives: Ad-clickers

ZeroAccess Rootkit Guards Itself with a Tripwire

July 8, 2011 – 12:40 pm

By Marco Giuliani The latest generation of a rapidly evolving family of kernel-mode rootkits called, variously, ZeroAccess or Max++, seems to get more powerful and effective with each new variant. The rootkit infects a random system driver, overwriting its code with its own, infected driver, and hijacks the storage driver chain in order to hide [...]

By Marco Giuliani | Also posted in Botnet activity, Destructive behavior, Downloaders, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research, Trojans | Comments (4)

Chinese Trojan Turns Infected PCs Into Web Servers

December 4, 2010 – 8:39 am

By Andrew Brandt A complex and elaborately conceived family of malware that originates in China installs the Apache Web server, as well as half a dozen keylogger and downloader payloads, disguised as components of legitimate apps. We and a few other antivirus vendors are calling this type of malware Taobatuo. It just so happens that [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Backdoors, Downloaders, hijack search results, Keyloggers, phishing, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Leave a Comment

Epic Malware Dropper Makes No Attempt to Hide

September 21, 2010 – 3:09 pm

By Andrew Brandt In the world of first-person shooter games, getting the most headshots – hits on the opponent which instantly take the opponent’s avatar out of the game — is a prized goal. The headshot is the quickest way to dispatch a foe in virtually every shooter, which is why the file name of [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in adware, Backdoors, Blackhat SEO, Destructive behavior, Downloaders, Keyloggers, social engineering, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research, Trojans | Leave a Comment
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