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How to protect yourself from Java-based malware

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Jul

2012

The last few months we have seen a drastic increase in Java-based malware abusing the CVE-2012-0507 AtomicReferenceArray type-confusion vulnerability. In addition to that, a few weeks ago, a new Java vulnerability was found (CVE-2012-1723); it is also a type-confusion vulnerability. The attack abusing this new vulnerability is also very active. Traditionally, Java has a strong […]

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LinkScanner detection 1494 is correct

08

Jun

2012

It is not uncommon for the AVG Web Threats Research Group to receive comments from webmasters of compromised sites that are serving malicious content to their visitors, questioning whether the AVG detections on their sites are correct. They almost invariably are correct. The Web Threats team maintains the LinkScanner component and the team is justifiably […]

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The Case of the Unintended Android Application Upgrade

28

Mar

2012

There has been a lot of confusion over the last hours after an application named “МТС Мобильная Почта” was automatically added to the My Apps section of some Samsung devices as an apparent application upgrade. However, these devices have never installed this application. Some users thought this was a bug within Google’s upgrading mechanism, but […]

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