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MDK: The Largest Mobile Botnet in China

Jan

2013

In February 2012, we blogged about Android.Bmaster (a.k.a. Rootstrap), which infected hundreds of thousands of devices. At that time, it was the largest mobile botnet documented to date. Recently, the Bmaster botnet has been overtaken by the newly uncovered MDK botnet. Dubbed as Android.Troj.mdk, Kingsoft believes it is hidden in more than 7,000 apps and […]

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Malware Authors Using New Techniques to Evade Automated Threat Analysis Systems

Oct

2012

According to the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR), 400 million new variants of malware were created in 2011, which is an average of 33 million new variants of malware a month, or an average of one million new variants a day.It is impossible to manually analyze such a large number of sample files, so […]

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Outlook webmail passwords restricted to 16 chars – how does that compare with Yahoo and Gmail?

Aug

2012

Outlook.com, Microsoft’s relaunch for Hotmail, has already had over one million new sign-ups from users keen to try it out.Jokers were also quick to grab available email addresses, beating Microsoft’s CEO to the punch by grabbing [email protected] and [email protected], for instance.Although these addresses were no doubt acquired for fun, there can be little doubt that […]

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