QBot banker delivered through business correspondence

In early April, we detected a significant increase in attacks that use banking Trojans of the QBot family aka QakBot, QuackBot, and Pinkslipbot. The malware would be delivered through e-mail letters written in different languages — variations of them were coming in English, German, Italian, and...

Virus conducting DDoS attack from infected systems

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users about the malicious program which is helping attackers carry out mass spam mailings and allow attacker to use victim's PC as slave of his DDOS Army. According to researchers from the company they have discovered a Trojan "Trojan.Proxy.23012"...

The Malware Cash Factory

Over on our sister site Viruslist.com, researchers Sergey Golovanov and Igor Soumenkov have published an article that studies a single spam e-mail and illustrates the methods used by cyber criminals to create botnets and conduct mass spam mailings. The methods and techniques used are clearly...