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Trojan.Yontoo.1 leads among new adware Trojans for Mac

Mar

2013

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web reports that adware for Mac OS X has been increasing in number since the beginning of 2013. Trojan.Yontoo.1 is the most prominent of them: It can download and install an adware browser plugin in an infected system. According to Doctor Web’s analysts, the trend towards a growing number of adware […]

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Dancing Penguins – A Case of Organized Android Pay Per Install

Sep

2012

For years, cyber criminals have organized their operations and traded resources through discussion forums and auction sites. One popular item to trade is access to virus infected PCs for cash. These trading schemes are often called pay-per install (PPI) programs. We have recently started an investigation on a new type of pay-per install program, this […]

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Naughty nurse Sakura Shiratori tries to infect defence firm with malware

Aug

2012

As we have mentioned before, we’ve seen a large number of files spammed out to various organisations, exploiting the CVE-2012-0158 vulnerability.Victims have not been limited to defence companies, but have also included government departments, charities and recruitment agencies.One of the latest attacks we have seen was sent to a defence contractor, using the subject line […]

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