Malware using your computer to make digital money
Electronic money (e-money) is being used more and more often by people to make online purchases. And sure as night follows day, this means electronic money is also gaining the attention of malware authors who are trying to benefit from it by any means possible. We encountered a malicious sample, whose role is not to steal but to generate (to ‘mine’) digital currency using a Bitcoin ‘mining pool’ (a distributed computational network to generate ‘Bitcoins’). The attack is executed by installing a trojan horse program on a network of victim computers and then use their processing power to generate Bitcoin blocks.
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Hackers need privacy too – Password protected archives help malware evade detection by antivirus scanners
If you need to deliver or store confidential documents over the Internet, then placing them inside a password-protected, self-extracting ‘archive’ is one of the best ways to keep out prying eyes. Many users will be familiar with archives in the form of ‘zip’ files and programs like WinZip (there are others like 7-Zip and WinRar which perform a similar function). An archive allows you save multiple documents inside a single file and to compress the overall file size.
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TrojWare.Win32.TrojanSpy.Volisk.a
As part of Comodo Labs’ ongoing analysis of “digitally signed” (confirming software author and guaranteeing computer program code hasn’t been altered or corrupted since being signed) ”malware” (software used or created to disrupt computer operation, gather sensitive information, or gain access to computer systems), we recently discovered a new sample which uses an interesting and potentially devastating combination of techniques to deliver its “payload” (cargo of a data transmission).
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Obama and Romney Finally Agreed on Something
November 6th is upon us, which in the United States means it is Election Day. And it isn’t just any Election Day but for the position of President of the United States. For months on end the 2012 Presidential Campaign has had few topics in which the two candidates actually agree on.
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If the White House Has Trouble With Computer Hackers Then Everyone is at Risk
According to the noted National Security expert Bill Gertz, White House computers have been compromised by hackers, probably from China, but nothing classified was stolen. (Washington Free Beacon, 9/30/12)
Who says nothing classified was stolen?
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