Malware Using More Stealthy Techniques To Avoid Detection

June 30, 2015 mitch tanenbaum Leave a comment

Dell SecureWorks, the counter threat service that Dell bought in 2011, is reporting on a new outbreak of the malware family STEGOLOADER, which has a different M.O., making it hard to detect. All that persists on the machine in a small loader that downloads the core module. This can be changed easily and might even […]

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Significant number of major businesses hit by Backoff malware

August 31, 2014 CyberCecurity

After my last post, a new article came out about the Backoff malware. The article, quoting the US Department of Homeland Security, said that over a thousand small, medium and enterprise U.S. businesses have been compromised by the Backoff malware package. Backoff is fairly new – first seen last year – and scrapes the memory […]

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