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Facebook Hacked, Mobile Dev Watering Holes, and Mac Malware

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Feb

2013

Friday, February 1st: Twitter announced it was hacked. The post (Keeping our users secure) by Bob Lord, Director of Information Security, was sparse on details but recommended disabling Java’s browser plugin. And according to Lord, the attackers “were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organizations have also been recently similarly attacked.” Friday, February […]

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Trojan.Ransomgerpo Criminal Arrested

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Feb

2013

Spanish police have reported the arrest of an individual involved with a particular strain of police Ransomware known as Ransom.EY, detected by Symantec as Trojan.Ransomgerpo.This variant is one of the earliest active police Ransomware families, which Symantec has been tracking since at least July, 2011. The Trojan was distributed using drive by download techniques, in […]

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Cyber Attacks Against Uyghur Mac OS X Users Intensify

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Feb

2013

In partnership with researchers at AlienVault Labs, we’ve analysed a series of targeted attacks against Uyghur Mac OS X users which took place during the past months. You can read their analysis here. For our research, please read below. We previously wrote about targeted attacks against Tibetan activists which used Mac OS X malware. In […]

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