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164 Unique Android Adware Still Online

27

Aug

2012

Last week, we monitored three popular Android app stores – Google Play, Nduo and GFan – and found several adware on these app providers. When installed, adware typically display annoying advertisements. The chart below shows the adware that were still available online from August 12-18. Based on our findings, GFan had the most number of […]

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Shamoon the Wiper in details

22

Aug

2012

We continue to analyse the Shamoon malware. This blog contains information about the internals of the malicious samples involved in this campaign. Samples nesting The main executable (dropper) includes 3 resources, each maintains a ciphered program. The cipher is pretty simple ? xor by dword. This was mentioned in our first blog-post. Resource PKCS12:112 maintains […]

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Ransomware Uses McAfee SECURE, Police Logos to Scam Users

26

Jun

2012

McAfee Labs researchers have seen an increase in instances of the McAfee SECURE logo being falsified as part of a “ransomware” campaign. Once a machine is infected, the malware checks to see which country the user is located in. It then displays a localized graphic containing a police logo and a message announcing that the […]

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