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Linux Kernel Exploit Ported to Android

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Jun

2013

Malware authors are notorious for quickly leveraging new exploits in the public domain for nefarious purposes. The recent discovery of a Linux Kernel CVE-2013-2094 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2013-2094) in the Performance Counters for Linux (PCL)-currently being exploited on various platforms-has now been modified to work on the Android operating system. For anyone unfamiliar with […]

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GAMARUE Uses Sourceforge to Host Files

11

Jun

2013

In our monitoring of the GAMARUE malware family, we found a variant that used the online code repository SourceForge to host malicious files. This finding is the latest development we’ve seen since the increase in infection counts observed last month.SourceForge is a leading code repository for many open-source projects, which gives developers a free site […]

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Telecom fraud – phishing and Trojans combined

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May

2013

In China telecom fraud has become an increasingly common crime. Last year there were more than 170,000 telecom fraud cases, causing the loss of over $12.5 billion. The fraudsters usually call their victims and trick them into transferring cash to a criminal gang via an ATM. But recently a new breed of telecom fraud, which […]

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