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New Kraken Variant Revealed

PC Tools, on April 28, 2008, said that it discovered a new threat version of the Kraken bot, also called Bobax.

The security provider also told PC Advisor that the Kraken variant was an extremely serious threat as it uses previously unknown techniques of detection evasion.

According to PC Tools, the new Kraken variant employs a program that generates random words for URLs and headers and though the words look natural, they are meaningless.

Senior malware Researcher Sergei Shevchenko at PC Tools said that the generator of random words has probably been designed to escape spam filters that are able to differentiate the randomness present in phrases by ide...

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