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Chocolate Covered Exploit?

14

Feb

2012

Valentine’s Day is here, and stores are flooded with flowers, chocolates, and gift cards. Showing appreciation to your significant other(s) with a box of expensive chocolates has become a tradition, but Googling to find the perfect gourmet chocolate gift has never been more dangerous. Events such as Valentine’s Day are a prime target for many hackers. Because […]

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Mac Malware Summary 2011 (Q2/Q3/Q4)

16

Jan

2012

Brod, a researcher on our Threat Research team has been tasked with tracking emerging Mac based threats. Microsoft Excel is one of the tools he uses to chart variants. From April to December 2011, there have been several dozen new Mac threats. Well, that’s nothing when compared to Windows malware — but it’s definitely something […]

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Are You Beta Testing Malware pt 2: Dissecting Fynloski’s Obfuscation

09

Jan

2012

This post is part two of two. In our previous post, we came across a couple of files that used some popular games as part of its social engineering technique. One of the files, which was named “diablo3-crack.exe” (after Diablo the video game series) is currently detected as Backdoor:Win32/Fynloski.A. It piqued our interest because we’re […]

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