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Research By: Alexey Bukhteyev
As you may know, Ramnit is one of the most prominent banking malware families in existence today and lately Check Point Research monitored a new massive campaign of Ramnit, dubbed ‘Black’, reaching over 100,000 infections over the course of two months. It is used mainly to turn the victim’s machine into malicious proxy servers.
In fact, this massive new campaign may actually be used for many things, but our current belief is that this is just the tip of the iceberg and this is a warning sign of a bigger operation that the Ramnit operators are cooking for us.
Of course, we will continue to monitor this campaign for any developments, but in the meanti…
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