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Tag: Botnet

TDL-4: Is it the Godfather of Botnets?

Posted on July 5, 2011 By Michael Kavka No Comments on TDL-4: Is it the Godfather of Botnets?

“I’ll make them an offer, they can’t refuse.” Remember that line? Well it seems that the TDL-4 botnet is using the same line, and very effectively. TDL-4 has over 4.5 Million Zombies according to recent reports. It removes Malware it doesn’t like. It hides in the MBR of a machine, making it difficult to remove….

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Cisco gets its head in the cloud

Posted on April 21, 2009 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Cisco gets its head in the cloud

Some day I am personally going ot make it to one of these big industry conferences and then we shall all be in trouble. Unfortunately all I can do is keep my eyes on @rsaconference through twitter, and watch the news sites for the interesting information from the RSA Conference going on now. RSA Conference,…

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But wait there’s more!

Posted on April 9, 2009 By Michael Kavka No Comments on But wait there’s more!

Just when you thought you could put Cornficker on the list of false alarms, like a bad penny it turns up. That is right, get ready for another media blitz about it. As of right now, Cornficker is just communicating and transferring payloads between each other. Its also trying to contact sites such as AOL,…

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