If you use an Android phone you may have heard of something called the USSD vulnerability. This allows a nasty piece of malicious software to reset your Android to its factory default settings and permanently delete your data. We will describe the USSD problem in more detail in a moment but first we want to […]
It all starts with a post on someone’s Facebook wall: The shortened URL leads to a long URL and its only function is to check the visitor’s country of origin. According to the result, the visitor is put into a quite impressive redirection chain with numerous ad services, built-in via iFrames. Each and every “visit” […]
Another item in the post-vacation queue for the blog is an update on the big Fake AV attack we posted about at the beginning of the month. From last Friday's logs, I pulled data on one sample server. Here's what it had been up to: – 2400+ URLs in the week from 4/13 (when it […]
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