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Flamer: Highly Sophisticated and Discreet Threat Targets the Middle East

28

May

2012

Over the past few days, we have been analyzing a potential new threat that has been operating discreetly for at least two years. We were contacted about this threat by Crysys who have released their own analysis. (The threat is referred to by CrySys as 'Skywiper'). There are indications that W32.Flamer is also the same […]

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Android Apps Get Hit with the Evil Twin Routine: Part 1

25

Apr

2012

When pop icon Björk, in an interview with the press, invited hackers and pirates to adapt her app from iOS to other platforms, it seems that some people who rose to the call had a hidden agenda in mind: to distribute malware. The evil twin routine, where an author creates a malicious doppelganger or pirated […]

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Malware campaign targeting Opera Mobile

15

Mar

2012

I’ve stumbled upon hundreds of links targeting Opera Mobile users, to trick them into installing a malware on the device. The links are in the form of: hxxp://geqe.net/opera_mini/1965/opera_mini.auto#phpsessid=85cfe7f19a08b6387d0441a9d949bb95 Each has a different phpsessid value. The domain was registered last month (02/12/2012) and does not seem to host any legitimate content. These pages redirect to another […]

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