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The base CEF framework includes support for the C and C++ programming languages, but there are external projects that provide bindings for other languages:
Sality is a family of polymorphic file infectors, which target Windows executable files with the extensions .EXE or .SCR. [1] Sality utilizes polymorphic and entry-point obscuring (EPO) techniques to infect files using the following methods: not changing the entry point address of the host, and replacing the original host code at the entry point of the executable with a variable stub to ...
As a workaround before a patch was available, on December 28, 2005, Microsoft advised Windows users to unregister the dynamic-link library file shimgvw.dll (which can be done by executing the command regsvr32.exe /u shimgvw.dll from the Run menu or the command prompt) which invokes previewing of image files and is exploited by most of these ...
Koobface is a network worm that attacks Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms. [1] [2] [3] This worm originally targeted users of networking websites such as Facebook, Skype, Yahoo Messenger, and email websites such as GMail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL Mail.
Conficker, also known as Downup, Downadup and Kido, is a computer worm targeting the Microsoft Windows operating system that was first detected in November 2008. [2] It uses flaws in Windows OS software (MS08-067 / CVE-2008-4250) [3] [4] and dictionary attacks on administrator passwords to propagate while forming a botnet, and has been unusually difficult to counter because of its combined use ...
August 1, 2003: The U.S. issues an alert to be on the lookout for malware exploiting the RPC bug. [5] Sometime prior to August 11, 2003: Other viruses using the RPC exploit exist. [9] August 11, 2003: Original version of the worm appears on the Internet. [16] August 11, 2003: Symantec Antivirus releases a rapid release protection update. [8]
Rensenware is unusual as an example of ransomware in that it does not request the user pay the creator of the virus to decrypt their files, instead requiring the user to achieve a required number of points in the shoot 'em up video game Undefined Fantastic Object before any decryption can take place.
The latest full version of BlackEnergy emerged in 2014. The changes simplified the malware code: this version installer drops the main dynamically linked library (DLL) component directly to the local application data folder. [8] This variant of the malware was involved in the December 2015 Ukraine power grid cyberattack. [9]