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MacDefender undergoes a name change, MacShield

03

Jun

2011

The MacDefender malware has morphed again, now taking the guise of “MacShield.” As in the case of its oldest sibling MacDefender, the MacShield variant has taken the name of a legitimate Mac OSX software product with small distribution, doubtless causing the real developer significant heartache.The UI is essentially unchanged, but as usual all of […]

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May 2011 Global Threat Report

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Jun

2011

Released today in PDF format, a highlight of our global threat report covers: Don’t be silly online, please Facebook privacy: security concerns Cybersecurity symposium in San Diego Return of the password reset attack The Top Ten Threats Top Ten Threats at a Glance (graph) Be sure and check out our previous threat reports. Figure 1: […]

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TDL4: new bootkits stepping out

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May

2011

My colleague Aleks Matrosov has come across an interesting if uncomfortable post on a Russian language forum, advertising a "Boot loader for drivers" currently under test that doesn't require a Digital Signature driver, which sounds very much like our old friend TDL4. This metamorphic malware (each build generates a fresh binary) loads before the start of PatchGuard. It's […]

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