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Info Stealer Poses as Google Chrome Installer

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May

2012

We recently found some suspicious looking URLs which suggest that a malicious file named ChromeSetup.exe is hosted in domains like Facebook and Google. The finding, which we were able to flag during our analysis of data processed by the Trend MicroT Smart Protection NetworkT definitely caught our attention. Looking at data from the Smart Protection […]

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A tangled web…

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Apr

2012

The moment of infection, and the circumstances that lead to the introduction of malware to a system, are often not obvious. This short case study examines our observations and investigations into a particular example that illustrates a fairly typical method of compromise that is played out countless times each day? all over the web. A […]

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Android Apps Get Hit with the Evil Twin Routine: Part 1

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Apr

2012

When pop icon Björk, in an interview with the press, invited hackers and pirates to adapt her app from iOS to other platforms, it seems that some people who rose to the call had a hidden agenda in mind: to distribute malware. The evil twin routine, where an author creates a malicious doppelganger or pirated […]

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