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NewsFounder of the company bought by Microsoft for $250M sold his share for a bike Pin
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NewsMalware hacked to deliver anti-virus software Pin
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Dan Neely5-Feb-16 8:30 
Dridex malware exploit distributes antivirus installer—hack suspected | Ars Technica[^]

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It sounds like a scene from an absurdist play or a companion to the old tale of dogs and cats living together in harmony, but it has now been confirmed. Servers distributing the notorious Dridex banking trojan were instead circulating clean copies of the freely available Avira antivirus program.

Avira researchers still don't know how the mixup happened, but their chief theory is that a whitehat hacker compromised some of the Dridex distribution channels and replaced the normal malicious executables with a digitally signed Avira installer. As a result, when targets opened attachments contained in spam e-mails sent by Dridex servers, the would-be marks were instead prompted to run a program designed to protect computers from the very likes of the Dridex threat.


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Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

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NewsThe Iowa Republican Party website just leaked 2 million voter records Pin
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NewsTwisty fusion reactor goes online after 19 years of work Pin
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NewsThe Power of Visa Network Delivered as an API. Pin
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