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ChewBacca: Infostealer Malware Uses Tor for C&C Infrastructure

18

Dec

2013

Researchers from Kaspersky have come across a new piece of malware that uses the Tor anonymity network to host its malicious infrastructure. This feature is being integrated into more and more pieces of malware, including ZeuS and the Atrax crimeware kit. The threat, dubbed ChewBacca, is currently n…

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MouaBad Malware Allows Cybercriminals to Make Phone Calls

10

Dec

2013

A new version of the MouaBad mobile malware is capable of making phone calls from infected phones without user interaction. Researchers from Lookout have analyzed the threat, which they called MouaBad.p. Earlier versions of the malware were mainly developed to send out SMS messages to premium rate numbers from infecte…

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Java, Reader and Flash are most-exploited Windows programs

04

Dec

2013

A new long-term study by malware research group AV-Test shows that Adobe’s Reader and Flash and all versions of Java are together responsible for a total of 66 percent of the vulnerabilities in Windows systems exploited by malware.

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