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Avid readers of this blog can attest that we have been documenting a number of noteworthy and malicious binaries affecting smartphones, and those running on Android, specifically, are taking most of the brunt from these threats. One malware we have featured is called OpFake, a family of Trojans posing as a free app, which are […]

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Microsoft released Security Advisory 2718704 which revokes some certificated which apparently were used to sign the trojan Flame. In a blog post, Microsoft explains how they discovered that some components of the malware have been signed by certificates that allow software to appear as if it was produced by Microsoft. The certificates issued by the […]

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Darkshell is a distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnet targeting Chinese websites. It was found in 2011 and was first analyzed by Arbor Networks. McAfee Labs recently analyzed a few new samples that turned out to be variants of Darkshell, and we found extensive variations in network traffic and control commands.The Darkshell bot follows a […]

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