Break The Broker
This was a fairly quiet weekend at the SophosLabs UK headquarters. It seems all the hackers took a nice weekend out since the malware front was abandoned.
It’s a shame we cannot say the same about the spammers since late Saturday morning a relatively heavy drug campaign started and its last waves could still be observed after 24 hours - which just shows that in the field of computer security ‘evil never sleeps’ and there is always a reason to keep our eyes on our systems.
On Sunday a patcher program was seen among the incoming samples which instead of the usual key-generation tried to patch a specific stock market broker application to make it work without purchase.
This illegal patcher had already been detected proactively by Sophos as Mal/Packer providing continuous protection for Sophos customers. Such programs always make us wonder who would ever trust a cracked financial application with their money.
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