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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 11th, 2012
Trojan Hides on Google Play as “Super Mario” and “GTA 3 Moscow City”

Trojan Hides on Google Play as “Super Mario” and “GTA 3 Moscow City”

The malware uses a remote payload to remain undetected on the app market

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 11th, 2012
Scareware Advertises Shady Sites Before Displaying Fake Infection Messages

Scareware Advertises Shady Sites Before Displaying Fake Infection Messages

The malicious element pushes fake search results, desktop icons and spy apps

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 10th, 2012
Man-in-the-Mobile Attacks Target the Bank Accounts of Android Users

Man-in-the-Mobile Attacks Target the Bank Accounts of Android Users

Individuals from Spain, Portugal, Germany and the Netherlands are potential victims

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 10th, 2012
“Don’t Forget About Meeting Tomorrow” Emails Carry Malicious “Report.Zip”

“Don’t Forget About Meeting Tomorrow” Emails Carry Malicious “Report.Zip”

The messages are cleverly designed to avoid email filtering systems

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 9th, 2012
Time Has Run Out for Computers Affected by DNSChanger Trojan

Time Has Run Out for Computers Affected by DNSChanger Trojan

Here's a great tool from Bitdefender that automatically fixes the problem

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 6th, 2012
Tick Tock: It’s Lights Out for DNSChanger-Infected Computers on July 9 (Video)

Tick Tock: It’s Lights Out for DNSChanger-Infected Computers on July 9 (Video)

Some ISPs will make sure that their customers will have Internet access even after Monday

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 6th, 2012
Controversy: Google Says Android Spam Botnet Does Not Exist

Controversy: Google Says Android Spam Botnet Does Not Exist

Some security researchers agree, but others still believe that malware is to blame

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 5th, 2012
Phonebook-Stealing Trojan Found on Apple App Store and Google Play (Updated)

Phonebook-Stealing Trojan Found on Apple App Store and Google Play (Updated)

The malware is designed to send SMS spam to all the numbers from the victim's contact list

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 5th, 2012
Fraud Alert: ZeuS Malware Steals Banking Details via Fake Login Pages

Fraud Alert: ZeuS Malware Steals Banking Details via Fake Login Pages

Facebook, Gmail, PayPal and retail industry customers are targeted

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 5th, 2012
Android Botnet Used to Advertise Shady Pharmacy Sites, Experts Find

Android Botnet Used to Advertise Shady Pharmacy Sites, Experts Find

The spam messages are sent via Yahoo's free email service

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 4th, 2012
Ransomware Crooks: Pay a Fine or We Go to the Police

Ransomware Crooks: Pay a Fine or We Go to the Police

The victims' files are encrypted and the fraudsters threaten to unmask their "secrets"

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 3rd, 2012
Citadel’s Developers Fear Being Arrested, Remove Trojan from Open Market

Citadel’s Developers Fear Being Arrested, Remove Trojan from Open Market

The most sophisticated crimeware tool's authors decided to go deeper underground

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 3rd, 2012
All Carberp Cybercriminals Arrested, but Infection Rates Still High

All Carberp Cybercriminals Arrested, but Infection Rates Still High

ESET and Group-IB researchers have closely investigated the case

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 3rd, 2012
Boxer SMS Trojan Advertised as Firefox for Android

Boxer SMS Trojan Advertised as Firefox for Android

Users may be tricked into installing the fake app multiple times

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 2nd, 2012
Blackhole Exploit Kit Versions Found to Include XML Core Services Flaw

Blackhole Exploit Kit Versions Found to Include XML Core Services Flaw

For the time being it's not widespread, but that can change at any time

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • June 28th, 2012
Citadel Trojan Upgraded to Prevent Virtual Machine Analysis

Citadel Trojan Upgraded to Prevent Virtual Machine Analysis

The RC4 algorithm has been modified to integrate an internal hash

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • June 28th, 2012
Zemra DDOS Crimeware Kit Used to Extort Organizations

Zemra DDOS Crimeware Kit Used to Extort Organizations

The threat, active from June 25, costs only $125 (100 EUR)

 
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