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Malware in the Amazon App Store

19

Dec

2012

Like many others, I took advantage of Amazon.com’s sale and ordered a Kindle Fire HD last week. When I got around to exploring the Amazon App Store, it didn’t take long before running into malware. While searching for a particular benchmarking app I was presented with some additional apps. One of them immediately looked suspicious. […]

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Bamm Bamm, Rubble.

14

Sep

2011

The family selected for addition to MSRT this month is Win32/Bamital. Win32/Bamital was first discovered in September 2009 and was able to intercept and modify queries performed by search engines such as AltaVista, Bing, Google and Yahoo. Win32/Bamital has evolved over a number of generations, employing a varying range of system modifications to ensure that […]

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Animal Rights protesters use mobile means for their message

16

Aug

2011

After a public outcry and a write-in campaign failed to convince the creators of ‘Dog Wars’ to discontinue work on their app, it appears that protester(s) have now taken to targeting the users of the app directly in order to get their message across. Symantec has discovered that a Trojan code was planted into an older […]

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