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by David Harley Senior Research Fellow
February 22, 2012 at 4:12 pm

[More research from our colleagues in Russia]
In the beginning of February we found a new modification of our “old friend” Win32/Rovnix (the dropper detected as Win32/Rovnix.B trojan), which is the first bootkit using VBR (Volume Boot Record) infection. An interesting fact is that Rovnix bootkit components were used in Win32/Carberp, the most widely spread banking … Read More…

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by Pierre-Marc Bureau Senior Malware Researcher
May 10, 2011 at 1:43 pm

Our colleagues Aleksandr Matrosov and Eugene Rodionov are tracking the evolution of TDL4 (also known as Win32/Olmarik). The following is a report on the latest TDL4 update, released last week.
In our previous blog post, we described how the latest Microsoft Security Update modified the Windows OS loader (winloader.exe) to fix a vulnerability that allowed the … Read More…

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