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Airpush exploited to spread Trojans onto Android devices

13

Mar

2013

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users that the Airpush Mobile Ad network is often being exploited to spread Android.SmsSend Trojans. Unfortunately, messages displayed by Airpush can confuse users into downloading malware. Doctor Web has been receiving complaints regarding false positives by Dr.Web for Android; the anti-virus had been detecting Android.SmsSend.315.origin in the application […]

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Trojan.Hosts malware infects eight thousand computers every day

12

Mar

2013

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users about the growing number of compromised websites from which Trojan.Hosts malware is being downloaded onto computers. In early 2013 the threat spread at almost epidemic magnitude. The outbreak remained at its peak in January and mid-February when as many as 9,500 computer infections were being registered every […]

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Linux.Sshdkit attacks Linux servers

22

Feb

2013

The growing number of incidents involving compromised Linux web servers led Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web to conduct its own investigation into matter. Its analysts found that a Trojan horse, dubbed Linux.Sshdkit by Dr.Web, was sometimes being employed to steal passwords on servers running Linux. The malware is a library file available for 32- and […]

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