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When opened, malcode within the PDF attempts to exploit an old Adobe vulnerability in order to drop malware on the local computer.
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Media Surveillance, a German anti-piracy firm, said last year that one of its studies found 32 percent of pirated copies of Windows and hacks contained malcode.
Sunbelt Blog Tom Kelchner 2010
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- John Markoff, writing in the New York Times, has reported that SecureWorks researcher Joe Stewart found a distinctive algorithm - only ever published on Chinese web sites - used in the Hydraq Trojan which installed back-door malcode used in the attack on Google.
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- John Markoff, writing in the New York Times, has reported that SecureWorks researcher Joe Stewart found a distinctive algorithm - only ever published on Chinese web sites - used in the Hydraq Trojan which installed back-door malcode used in the attack on Google.
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"We take an all-hazards approach for reducing risk, so we're not just chasing the next malcode released by the bad guys," he said.
CNET News.com 2010
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Although the billions Microsoft loses to software pirates each year is bad enough, it's believed that pirated software can be a serious malcode vector as well.
Sunbelt Blog Tom Kelchner 2010
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Generic and behavior-based detections by the antivirus industry have improved thanks to the massive increase in new malcode, which number thousands per day.
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You can be sure it wasn't good, but the site (or code placed on it) clearly had measures set up to offer the malcode only on a visitor's first visit, so an analyst couldn't go any further.
Security Bloggers Network Tom Kelchner 2010
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A 2006 study by marketing intelligence firm IDC found that 25 percent of counterfeit software tried to install malcode when it was downloaded.
Sunbelt Blog Tom Kelchner 2010
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You can be sure it wasn't good, but the site (or code placed on it) clearly had measures set up to offer the malcode only on a visitor's first visit, so an analyst couldn't go any further.
Security Bloggers Network Tom Kelchner 2010
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