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This is a follow up to the Limited Firefox Zero-Day Attack in the Wild blog posted by my colleague Joji Hamada.

While things had been quiet, we were quite certain that the gang behind Trojan.Hydraq hadn't gone away. It looks like they are back, as we've been seeing evidence of their attacks since January, including an attack I’d like to talk about below.

Zeus/Zbot is one of the most widely known Internet threats today. It’s been around since 2007 and has evolved over time, and is still in a constant state of being developed into a stronger, more prolific Trojan.
 

Malware authors use numerous unconventional techniques in their attempts to create malicious code that is not detected by antivirus software. As malicious code analysts, though, it is our job to analyze their creations, and as such we have to be constantly vigilant for the latest tricks that the malware authors employ.