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Double Trouble

31

Oct

2012

Android is one of the fastest growing platforms in the world. In the second quarter of this year there were more than 300 million active Android devices. The increase is almost 900,000 of new devices per day and still rising. These days Android occupies more than 60% of the mobile devices market! By the way […]

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MSIE 0day – continued (with a bit of Flash as well)

21

Sep

2012

While we were researching the websites currently serving the new Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) zero-day threat, we found that the new attack is being piggybacked on a slightly older attack aimed on industrial companies’ websites. The hacked legitimate websites contain on their main pages a hidden iframe. The July.html page contains code for loading a […]

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United States Cyber Security Ransomware Scam

05

Sep

2012

In this blog post, I would like to introduce one variant of the widely spread malware family, often detected by avast! as “Reveton.” Reveton is classified as ransomware; a program which locks your computer and expects an action, usually the payment of money. Unless the desired amount of money is paid or the malicious application […]

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