Category Archives: Ransomware

How malware authors evade antivirus detection

January 18, 2012 – 6:37 pm

By Dancho Danchev Aiming to ensure that their malware doesn’t end up in the hands of vendors and researchers, cybercriminals are actively experimenting with different quality assurance processes whose objective is to increase the probability of their campaigns successfully propagating in the wild without detection. Some of these techniques include multiple offline antivirus scanning interfaces [...]

By ddanchev | Also posted in Backdoors, Dialers, Downloaders, Keyloggers, malware, Phishing Trojans, Rogue Security Products, rootkit, Trojans, Uncategorized | Comments (8)

Criminals Abuse Amazon Hosting with Rogues, Ransomware

July 20, 2011 – 11:21 am

By Andrew Brandt The criminals who push rogues at the world don’t really care about the reputations of the ISPs or Web hosting services they abuse. They leap from free service to free service until they’ve thoroughly worn out their welcome and, in some cases, destroyed the reputation of the service they abused. But they [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Advanced Malware Removal, Botnet activity, Rogue Security Products, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (2)

Removing Popureb Doesn’t Require a Windows Reinstall

June 30, 2011 – 7:26 am

By Marco Giuliani Last Wednesday, Microsoft published a blog post detailing a significant update to a piece of malware named Popureb. The malware adds code to the Master Boot Record, or MBR, a region of the hard disk that’s read by the PC during bootup, long before the operating system has had a chance to [...]

By Marco Giuliani | Also posted in Advanced Malware Removal, Backdoors, Destructive behavior, malware, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research, Trojans | Comments (9)

New Rogue Is Actually Five Rogues in One

September 16, 2010 – 1:32 pm

By Andrew Brandt For years, the makers of those snake oil security programs we call Rogue Security Products have spent considerable effort making up new names, developing unique graphic design standards, and inventing backstories for their utterly useless, expensive scam products. Now a new rogue has taken this never ending shell game one step further, [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Blackhat SEO, Internet security industry, Rogue Security Products, Search engines, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (4)

Ransomware App Asks Victims to Pay a Phone Bill

July 8, 2010 – 2:22 pm

By Andrew Brandt Ransomware is nothing new, but a Ukrainian ransomware Trojan that came over the transom last week demonstrated that the concept of “payment” can extend to services other than banking or finance. In this case, the Trojan (which we and several other AV companies call Trojan-Ransom-Krotten) thoroughly locks down the infected system then [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Destructive behavior, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research, Trojans | Comments (3)
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