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Malaysian Government Certificate Used to Sign Malware Another incident involving digital certificates has been discovered. In this situation a piece of malware has been found to be signed by a certificate stolen from a government institution in Malaysia. F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen reports that even though these situations are rare, they're not quite uncommon. ...	15 November 2011 02:54 GMT

ZeuS Bot Herder Taunts Security Researchers Through Fake Digital Certificate A recently identified ZeuS trojan sample is digitally signed with a fake certificate whose purpose is to make the piece of malware harder to detect.According to security experts from Avira who discovered the sample, the digital certificate is signed by an entity called "DetectMe :)" and dates since the end of Februar...	14 April 2011 02:24 GMT

Newly Found ZeuS Sample Signed with Fake Avira Certificate Security researchers warn that a newly identified ZeuS sample is signed with a fake digital certificate allegedly issued to German antivirus vendor Avira.Code signing has been possible since the days of Windows NT, however, adoption of the technology was slow until Windows Vista and Windows 7, where UAC (User Access ...	21 February 2011 02:59 GMT

Zero-Day Adobe Reader Exploit Drops Digitally Signed Malware Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab warn that malware dropped by the latest PDF-based attacks is digitally signed with a certificate stolen from a credit union.The new attacks targeting a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader seems to become more sophisticated by the hour.One of the exploits uses return-oriented...	9 September 2010 03:50 GMT

Zbot Authors Forge Kaspersky Digital Signature Security researchers warn that multiple recent Zbot variants are using a forged digital signature in an attempt to bypass antivurs detection. Ironically the digital signature was copied from a ZeuS removal tool developed by Kaspersky Lab.Code signing has been around since Windows NT, but the practice has seen a wider...	5 August 2010 06:21 GMT

New Stuxnet-Related Malware Signed Using Certificate from JMicron Security researchers from ESET have found a new piece of digitally signed malware related to the recently discovered Stuxnet worm. The new threat was created last week and abuses a certificated from a different integrated circuits (IC) manufacturer called JMicron Technology Corporation.The hottest topic in the antivi...	20 July 2010 04:10 GMT

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