Security researchers from Microsoft have come across a new version of the Alureon malware which uses sophisticated obfuscation techniques in order to evade antivirus detection and analysis.Alureon is a family of trojans that intercept Internet traffic with the purpose of stealing login credentials, credit card data a... |
16 May 2011
14:43 GMT |
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While Microsoft has been successfully tackling the Alureon rootkit with a variety of security solutions, the authors of the malware have also been hard at work updating the malicious code, in order to enable it to also infect 64-bit (x64) PCs. When it was first detected, Alureon targeted mainly 32-bit (x86) Windows ... |
30 August 2010
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Windows 7 is almost immune to a piece of malware that has proven a real nightmare to users running older versions of the Windows client. Windows XP SP3 customers particularly have been hit extremely hard by Alureon, a rootkit that failed to play nice with a Windows kernel update and ended up rendering unbootable infe... |
24 May 2010
10:15 GMT |
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Microsoft resumed the distribution of MS10-015 to all Windows customers via Automatic Update on March 2nd, 2010. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-015, rated Important and designed to patch vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel, ended up being the catalyst for Blue Screen errors and computers that would no longer boot, on... |
3 March 2010
09:13 GMT |
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The recent MS10-015 incident, related to BSODs and rootkit infections, got me thinking about a time, not so long ago, when Microsoft had to fight with security companies in order actually secure Windows. I know of no other example of a company doing valid work to bulletproof their software only to be accused by promi... |
20 February 2010
06:50 GMT |
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Microsoft starting to serve the February 2010 security updates to customers running its products was just the first move in what has become an interesting game of chess between the company and malware authors. The Redmond company moved first, with the release of the MS10-015 (KB977165) patch, among the many security ... |
18 February 2010
09:10 GMT |
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