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Code certificate laissez-faire leads to banking Trojans

21

Feb

2013

Code signing certificates are used to authoritatively identify a software publisher and to guarantee that the content the certificate signs has not been tampered with between the time it was signed and the time the user executes it. Unfortunately, we see more and more malware signed using fraudulently obtained or stolen code signing certificates. We […]

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Android/FakeToken 2.0 Goes Back to Basics

31

Oct

2012

In March a new type of financial attack on Android devices was found targeting customers of several banks in Europe. Dubbed FakeToken, one of the principal differences of this new threat-compared with previous Trojan bankers for Android such as Zitmo/Spitmo-was the fact that both authentication factors (Internet password and mTAN) were stolen directly from the […]

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Malware signed with the Adobe code signing certificate

04

Oct

2012

Last week, Adobe released an advisory (APSA12-01) announcing the upcoming revocation of an Adobe code signing certificate as it was compromised and used to sign at least two malicious utilities. They identified a compromised build server that required access to the code signing infrastructure and have forensic evidence that links it to the signing of […]

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