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Olmasco bootkit: next circle of TDL4 evolution (or not?)

18

Oct

2012

ESET – Olmasco (also known as SST, MaxSS) is a modification of the TDL4 bootkit family that we’ve been aware of since summer 2011. We started to track a new wave of activity from a new Olmasco dropper at the end of this summer. This bootkit family was the second to use VBR (Volume Boot […]

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Malicious Developers Release Rogue Bad Piggies Versions

16

Oct

2012

It’s a pig-eat-pig world out there – at least on the mobile app threat front. Right after reports of malicious Bad Piggies on Google Chrome Web Store circulated, we found that certain developers also released their own, albeit rogue versions of the said gaming app. On the heels of Bad Piggies‘ launch last month, we […]

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Free Android USSD vulnerability protection from ESET now on Google Play

02

Oct

2012

If you use an Android phone you may have heard of something called the USSD vulnerability. This allows a nasty piece of malicious software to reset your Android to its factory default settings and permanently delete your data. We will describe the USSD problem in more detail in a moment but first we want to […]

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