by Joseph Forbes | Mar 29, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, Malware Reports, Microsoft's Malware Protection Center, SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals
We recently came across the file 1ac150ddb964722b6b7c96808763b3e4d0472daf during the course of regular research. We detect this file as Trojan:Win32/Preflayer.A. The file had been distributed with the file name FlashPlayer.exe and not surprisingly, when executed, it...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 25, 2013 | HACKING, KnowledgeBase (KB), Microsoft's Malware Protection Center, SECURITY, Technicals
Ramnit is one of the most prevalent threat families still active in the wild today. Two years ago, we talked about the infection method it uses in the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) blog Little red Ramnit: My what big eyes you have, Grandma! by Scott...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 13, 2013 | HACKING, KnowledgeBase (KB), Malware Reports, Microsoft's Malware Protection Center, SECURITY
Wecykler is a family of worms, that shares some similarities with the Worm:Win32/Autorun family, in that it takes advantage of removable drives attached to an infected system in order to propagate to other machines. They target users’ familiarity with the...
