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Windigo Team
ESET wins Virus Bulletin award
By Raphael Labaca Castro, Editor-In-Chief
In March 2014, ESET’s research
team released a significant report
on Operation Windigo, for which
we were recently given the Péter
Szőr Award at the 24th Virus
Bulletin International Conference.
The group responsible is using infected
servers to send spam, redirect traffic to
malicious content and steal more server
credentials to widen their campaign.
The report is only part of the results
of our efforts. The primary purpose of
our investigation is to understand
emerging threats and to ensure users
are protected. We’re blocking hundreds
of thousands of Web requests daily,
ensuring Operation Windigo’s malicious
content never reaches its victims.
We’ve also collaborated with various
international organizations and
notified many infected entities to help
them clean up their servers.In addition,
whenever we find information that
provides hints as to the identity of the
culprits, we pass it to the police.
Commenting on the award, John
Hawes, Chief of Operations at Virus
Bulletin said, “ESET Canada are worthy
winners of this award in memory of the
great Péter Szőr. The depth and breadth
of the Operation Windigo investigation,
the use of a range of groundbreaking
techniques, and the high level of
collaboration with other researchers
and affected parties are all very much in
the spirit of Péter’s own excellent work.”
25,000 infected
sites found
500,000 users
DAILY directed to
malicious content
35 million spam emails
sent EVERY 24 HOURS
ESET awarded Peter
Szor Award at 24th
VB International
Conference
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