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Malware campaign inflated views of pro-Russia videos

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A botnet designed for Web advertising fraud was also used to nudge up the number of views of some pro-Russian videos on the website DailyMotion, according to security vendor Trustwave.

An investigation into what appeared to be strictly ad fraud turned out to have a surprising political angle, wrote Rami Kogan of Trustwave’s SpiderLabs, in a blog post on Thursday.

“We can’t know for sure who’s behind the fraudulent promotion of video clips, but it appears to be politically motivated,” he wrote.

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Malware has affected four out of every 10 Malaysians, says Kaspersky Labs – The Star Online

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The Star Online

Malware has affected four out of every 10 Malaysians, says Kaspersky Labs
The Star Online
On reports that intrusion and surveillance software FinSpy was found to be used by some governments to allegedly spy on its citizens and activists, Diaz said one of these servers was found in Malaysia. "In Malaysia, we found one server that looks like …

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Reconnaissance malware wave strikes energy sector – ZDNet

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ZDNet

Reconnaissance malware wave strikes energy sector
ZDNet
trojan-laziok-header660credsymantec.jpg Symantec. A multi-staged, targeted campaign is striking the international energy sector in order to spy on companies and steal sensitive information. Between January and February this year, security researchers …

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What enterprises need to know about the Regin malware toolkit – TechTarget

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What enterprises need to know about the Regin malware toolkit
TechTarget
The Regin malware is similar to prior cyber-espionage malware, such as Flame or Stuxnet, as it uses modular software development or structured programming. However, as security expert Bruce Schneier points out, many of its components are government …

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