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 | Posted in Advanced Malware Removal, Backdoors, Destructive behavior, malware, Ransomware, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research, Trojans | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (9)

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 | Posted in Destructive behavior, Ransomware, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research, Trojans | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)
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