Malware | MyAntiSpyware - Part 11

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Found new way for steal data encrypted using SSL/TLS

Myantispyware team March 26, 2007 No Comment Identity Theft, Malware

Russian malware authors are finding new ways to steal and profit from data which used to be considered safe from thieves because it was encrypted using SSL/TLS. A single attack by a single variant compromises more than 5200 hosts and 10,000 user accounts on hundreds of sites. Steals SSL data using advanced Winsock2 functionality State-of-the-art,

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Top malwares sorted by category

Myantispyware team March 26, 2007 2 Comments Malware

1. Greediest Trojan Targeting Banks – this month, it’s Trojan- Spy.Win32.Banker.zd, which targets the clients of 33 banks. And just as we keep saying, the number of Trojans which target more than one bank is growing all the time. 2. Greediest Trojan Targeting E-payment Systems – The winner in this category is Trojan-Spy.Win32.Banker.z. This Trojan

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Found new fake codecs – SilverCodec and BrainCodec

Myantispyware team December 1, 2006 No Comment Adware, Malware

Sunbelt blog and Bleepingcomputer reported about two new fake codecs: SilverCodec and BrainCodec This is so new in fact, that though the BrainCodec has its own domain and its own braincodec.107.exe, they forgot to change the web site itself. As you can see the web site is still showing the layout and image for Gold

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More fake codec sites

Myantispyware team November 21, 2006 No Comment Adware, Malware

As always, DO NOT download these fake codecs. They do not improve video or audio, and installing them under the premise of “free video” or any other reason is a very bad idea. MovieCodec TV Codec WatchFree SuperCodec Perfect Codec Related articles: How to remove malicious codecs.

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SpamThru Trojan – malware who detects and removes another malware

Myantispyware team October 26, 2006 No Comment Malware, Trojan

Like many viruses and trojans, SpamThru attempts to prevent installed anti-virus software from downloading updates by adding entries into the %sysdir%\drivers\etc\hosts file pointing the AV update sites to the localhost address. In the past, we’ve also seen malware which tries to uproot other competing malware on an infected system by killing its processes, removing its

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New malware poses as Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Notification

Myantispyware team June 30, 2006 4 Comments Malware

A new piece of very nasty malware has been recently discovered on spyware help forums, first here and again here. The file name is wgavn.exe and it creates a service named “Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Notification”, as seen in this line in the HijackThis log. O23 – Service: Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Notification (wgavn) –

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SMS text messages used to spread malware/keylogger

Myantispyware team June 27, 2006 No Comment Malware, Trojan

CA has received reports of Win32/Bambo.CF being distributed via SMS text messages sent to mobile phones, enticing people to visit a malicious website. The messages may contain the following: Thanks for subscribing to *****.com dating service. If you don’t unsubscribe you will be charged $2 per day. The text message then directs the recipient to

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More fake codecs – nvidcodec, media-codec

Myantispyware team June 6, 2006 No Comment Malware, Trojan

Found new fake codec – nvidcodec. The codec is malicious programecs that deliver popup advertisements and hijack search engine results. Some AV vendors detected the codec as Trojan.Downloader.Zlob

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