Bredolab Trojan surges to new heights

[ripper]

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[hellnoire]

Sounds like something out of an IT nightmare. Though I would think something like 'DeepFreeze' and 'Returnil' should zap it...

[safeguy]

Once again infection through email attachmentments. An old tactic but a deadly move.
When will people ever realize the dangers of opening email attachments?

[hellnoire]

When the internet freezes over, Safeguy. That's when.

[Ceyfer √]

Once again infection through email attachmentments. An old tactic but a deadly move.
When will people ever realize the dangers of opening email attachments?

So this is just a trojan dropper. It so easy to detect this threat using your brain.exe. If you have firewall then there's nothing to worry about it in-case your AV missed it.

The extracted ZIP archive contains an D*****.exe, of approx 36 kB, where * stands for random numbers and letters," the company explains. The executable file is actually the Bredolab installer, which, according to a VirusTotal scan, has an under average detection rate (16/49).

Bredolab is a new computer trojan discovered by security researchers back in May. Once installed on the system, its purpose is to infect it with additional malware. So far, the trojan has been observed to download malicious applications from the FakeAV family. - Softpedia News

Trojan Bredolab ( dropper/installer ) = Fake AV / Rogueware ( payload )

Hosts the malicious Win32/Bredolab
http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/mudstrang.ru

Trojan Bredolab : Threatexpert Analyisis

Trojan Bredolab : Symantec Threat Analysis

* It is already detected by most top notch AV and even by WOT

*Those who are using Yahoo mail which is protected by Norton AV can block and easily deleted this threat if detected.

[safeguy]

When the internet freezes over, Safeguy. That's when.

I would rather my PC get infected than face a frozen internet lol

[hellnoire]

Same here.