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EDUnet Trojan Spread

Posted by Raluca in April 30th 2008

BitDefender antivirus analysts have uncovered a spam-sending scheme of Byzantine complexity. The discovery came with the identification of spam e-mails which claim to contain links to videos. When users try to click and see the video, they are instead prompted to download a “media player.” The media player is in fact Backdoor.Edunet.A, a piece of [...]

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under: Software
Tags: BitDefender, Trojan

Top 10 Malware List for February 2008

Posted by Raluca in February 29th 2008

The Peed/Storm Trojan dominated the top of the list at 16.88 percent of total detections, a strong resurgence given its absence from the January Top 10 Malware List. The “popularity” of the Windows WMF vulnerability decreased as viruses using its signature only accounted for 5.33 percent of total detections. 1. Packer.Malware.NSAnti.K 37.07% 2. Trojan.Peed.Gen 16.88% [...]

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