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Enter Spy Eye – The Rise of Another Botnet

Posted: 27th May 2010 by sharpe in Malware
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Originally posted on opensc.ws the 2nd of January 2010, the Spy Eye information theif appears to be a very promising info-stealer with much functionality, similar to that of the notourius ZBot. Spy Eye, which could originally be purchased for 500 USD, currently costs 1000 USD and contains much functionality including the following: Form-grabbing Password stealing [...]

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The Win32.Silon information thief  (hereafter referenced as Silon) is a relitively new information stealer, which surfaced early 2009. It has the ability to steal log-in information and commit financial fraud via many popular online banks. Currently it has been seen it the following two versions (dubbed by CSIS): Win32/Silon.A (SA) Win32/Silon.B (SB) Due to the [...]

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“Default User” Temporary Internet File weirdness

Posted: 27th July 2009 by sharpe in Malware
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The other day I was looking at a friend’s computer. I was browsing his user profile directory in search of something intersting to show him and came across something that I had never seen before; the Default User’s Temporary Internet Files directory was filled with temporary Internet files (hence its name ) as though this [...]

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