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Kaspersky Continues to Research Madi Trojan

Posted by elisse / August 1, 2012

The discovery of a new piece of malware was announced in mid-July by Kaspersky Lab, one of OPSWAT’s Metascan Engine Partners. The malware, called Trojan.Win32.Madi or “Madi”, was first detected by Seculert, an Advanced Threat Detection company, who then worked with Kaspersky to investigate Madi’s role in an active cyber-espionage attack targeting critical infrastructural projects in Middle Eastern engineering, financial, and government organizations. Over an eight month period, Kaspersky and Seculert’s joint investigation found over 800 victims in locations globally, mostly centered in Iran and Israel.