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Vikram Thakur

Vikram Thakur
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New blog entry 08 Dec 2011
Thanks to Stephen Doherty, Andrea Lelli, Nicolas Falliere, Paul Mangan, Asuka Yamamoto, and Sean Kiernan for their technical contributions. Recently, we posted two blogs about attacks leveraging the latest Adobe vulnerability. These attacks are part of a long-running series of atta
New blog entry 22 Jul 2010
We’ve been analyzing W32.Stuxnet , which is a threat that uses a legitimate digital certificate from a major third party and takes advantage of a previously unknown bug in Windows; ultimately, it searches for SCADA systems and design documents. The findings of our analysis are being documented
New blog entry 18 Jun 2008
Some advice for the day: don't click on every link in your email. It looks like the Peacomm (Storm) authors have decided to use past and future events in China as lures for their latest creation. A new spam run is in progress with links to a file called "beijing.exe," which is curre
New blog entry 05 May 2008
No sooner had various agencies commented on the reduction of the size of the Storm network than we started seeing signs of another wave of malware in the offing. We are currently tracking some fast-flux domains related to Trojan.Peacomm (a.k.a. Storm). These domains were registered jus
New blog entry 24 Mar 2008
A couple of weekends ago, I was doing exactly what most computer users do in their free time. I was sitting front of the computer, visiting sites that I have no business with. One site led to another and I eventually started looking for some old friends I had lost contact with over the ye
New blog entry 27 Dec 2007
t’s been less than 24 hours since the former Prime Minister ofPakistan was assassinated. As expected, the malware authors anddistributors have already begun exploiting the morbid curiosity aboutBenazir Bhutto's death as a lure to spread their malice. A simple search with terms such as &qu
New blog entry 27 Dec 2007
It’s been less than 24 hours since theformer Prime Minister of Pakistan was assassinated. As expected, themalware authors and distributors have already begun exploiting themorbid curiosity about Benazir Bhutto's death as a lure to spread theirmalice. A simple search with terms such as
New blog entry 30 Nov 2007
A few days ago we posted a blog entry about how some pharmaceutical sites were using link farms and spammingin their marketing campaign. The hackers were injecting links intocompromised sites, which raised the marketed sites in search engineresults. We followed up with some of the owners and ad
New blog entry 27 Nov 2007
Earlier today there was a report about AlGore's site, climatecrisis.net, being hacked. The site contained linksthat weren't visible to the visitors, which pointed to variouspharmaceutical products. The links could be viewed by looking into thesource code of the page being displayed. T
New blog entry 27 Nov 2007
Earlier today there was a report about AlGore's site, climatecrisis.net, being hacked. The site contained linksthat weren't visible to the visitors, which pointed to variouspharmaceutical products. The links could be viewed by looking into thesource code of the page being displayed. T
New blog entry 31 Oct 2007
A few days ago our good friends at SANS posted an entry in their diary about a possible IRS scam about to happen. Well, it happened. We wereable to acquire a copy of the spammed email and analyze the maliciousbehavior—we believed that the email itself had to be included in ouranalysis. T
New blog entry 15 Oct 2007
The new Storm worm variants being seenthese days have yet again evolved and are gaining strength. Well, atleast in encryption technology. The P2P UDP packets (made up of theheader and payload) are now encrypted using a 40-byte key. As ourfriends at Secure Works pointed out here ,this is defi
New blog entry 01 Oct 2007
A few weeks ago I posted an entry about how malicious software was using stolen personal information tosend spam which made users believe in its authenticity. Recently, we'veacquired another email claiming to come from an employer who has founda resume matching an open position in their co
New blog entry 20 Sep 2007
If you've recently received an email with an attachment or link,asking you to install a patch or an update from Microsoft, pleasebeware as this is in all probability a hoax and could transfer controlof your computer to some unknown entity anywhere in the world. Recently, we received sampl
New blog entry 20 Aug 2007
We recently analyzed a sample of Infostealer.Monstres , and our colleague Amado posted an interesting entry with some details of its actions. As the analysis of this threatcontinued, new details emerged. We've been able to acquire some emailtemplates that the Trojan may use to send targ
New blog entry 13 Apr 2007
Right at the heel of Microsoft releasing its slew of patches, another vulnerability has been released. Microsoft didn't delay getting into action, releasing an advisory for it almost immediately. This time, the vulnerability lies within theDomain Name System (DNS) Server Service affec