dropper is a Trojan horse that has been designed to install malware (such as viruses and backdoors) onto a computer. The malware within the dropper can...
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quantities of liquid. Dropper may also refer to: Dropper (malware), a program that tries to install malware The Dropper, a 2000 album by experimental jazz fusion...
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Retrieved 3 April 2025. "Largest ever operation against botnets hits dropper malware ecosystem". Europol. Retrieved 14 March 2025. Mascellino, Alessandro...
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"Non-Windows Malware". Betanews. 24 August 2017. Archived from the original on 20 October 2017. Retrieved 19 October 2017. "Trojan Dropper". MalwareBytes. 30...
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Stuxnet (redirect from Stuxnet (malware))
irregular for malware. The Windows component of the malware is promiscuous in that it spreads relatively quickly and indiscriminately. The malware has both...
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allows others to go in and out of a system without being detected. Dropper: A malware designed to secretly install other programs on a device, unbeknownst...
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BlackEnergy (redirect from BlackEnergy Malware)
BlackEnergy Malware was first reported in 2007 as an HTTP-based toolkit that generated bots to execute distributed denial of service attacks. It was created...
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ThreatFabric, researchers explain how they discovered four different malware dropper campaigns distributing banking trojans on the Google Play Store. This...
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Malvertising Phishing BLADE Mac Flashback Windows Metafile vulnerability Dropper (malware) Sood, Aditya K.; Zeadally, Sherali (1 September 2016). "Drive-By Download...
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Trojan downloader, Trojan dropper, or Trojan spy. Its first known detection was January 2018, according to Microsoft Malware Protection Center. Trojans...
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recovery. The virus consisted of three components, the Dropper, the Wiper and the Reporter. The Dropper, the source of the infection, creates a service with...
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Mobile security (section Malicious software (malware))
code. Trojan-droppers can also avoid detection of malware. Despite the fact that the malware inside a device does not change, the dropper generates new...
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Duqu is a collection of computer malware discovered on 1 September 2011, thought by Kaspersky Labs to be related to the Stuxnet worm and to have been...
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OSX.Keydnap (category MacOS malware)
passwords from the iCloud Keychain of the infected machine. It uses a dropper to establish a permanent backdoor while exploiting MacOS vulnerabilities...
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Timeline of computer viruses and worms (category Malware)
discovered. Regin is a dropper, primarily spread via spoofed Web pages. Once installed, it quietly downloads additional malware, making it difficult for...
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CamScanner (category Android (operating system) malware)
the Android app distributed an advertising library containing a Trojan Dropper, which was also included in some apps preinstalled on several Chinese mobiles...
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United States, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia. APT33 reportedly uses a dropper program designated DropShot, which can deploy a wiper called ShapeShift...
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Alureon (category Windows malware)
with the rogue security software, "Security Essentials 2010". When the dropper is executed, it first hijacks the print spooler service (spoolsv.exe) to...
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Sergiu (10 July 2019). "Hackers Infect Pale Moon Archive Server With a Malware Dropper". Bleeping Computer. Bleeping Computer LLC. Retrieved 13 August 2022...
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beginning of "Operation Troy". This attack utilized the Mydoom and Dozer malware to launch a large-scale, but quite unsophisticated, DDoS attack against...
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of tools (such as "Silk Rope") designed to add BO2k dropper capability to self-propagating malware; and the fact that it has actually widely been used...
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available as a .exe package. The installation package doesn't contain any malware or spyware. FireDaemon Pro is released as licensed software. FireDaemon...
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Storm botnet (redirect from Ecard malware)
Storm botnet or Storm Worm botnet (also known as Dorf botnet and Ecard malware) was a remotely controlled network of "zombie" computers (or "botnet")...
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NTC Vulkan to Cozy Bear operations. APT29 has been observed to utilize a malware platform dubbed "Duke" which Kaspersky Lab reported in 2013 as "MiniDuke"...
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2012-04-22. Microsoft Malware Protection Center (2010-07-30). "TrojanDropper:Win32-Sality.AU". Microsoft. Retrieved 2012-04-22. Microsoft Malware Protection Center...
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discovered the Duqu malware; pursued the analysis of the Duqu malware and as a result of the investigation, identified a dropper file with an MS 0-day...
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Browser hijacking (category Types of malware)
Trojan downloader, Trojan dropper, or Trojan spy. Its first known detection goes back to May 31, 2011, according to Microsoft Malware Protection Center. This...
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responsible for causing the attack, Trojan.Dozer and its accompanying dropper W32.Dozer, was programmed to destroy data on infected computers and prevent...
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Trojan.Win32.FireHooker (section Malware details)
is the definition (from Kaspersky Labs) of a Trojan downloader, Trojan dropper, or Trojan spy created for the Windows platform. Its first known detection...
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HTAEdit, an editor for HTAs with a built-in debugger "Spora Ransomware Dropper Uses HTA to Infect System". VMRay. 2017-01-17. Retrieved 2018-12-22. "8...
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