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South Korean Banks, Media Companies Targeted by Destructive Malware

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Mar

2013

A massive computer shutdown of two South Korean banks and media companies occurred Wednesday via an Internet malware attack. The malware wiped out the master boot records on the hard drives of the infected computers, overwriting the MBR with either one of these strings: PRINCPES PR!NCPES HASTATI. Figure 1: Snapshot of MBR after infection.The attack […]

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The New Black: Facebook Black Scam Spreads on Facebook

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Mar

2013

Yesterday, Facebook users may have noticed an influx of their friends posting about something called Facebook Black. Figure 1. Facebook photo plugging “Faecbook” Black (notice the typo in this image) Similar to previous scams, users are tagged in a picture that contains a link to an external website. In this case, the link is found within the […]

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Android Malware Spams Victim’s Contacts

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Mar

2013

SMS messages attempting to lure Android device owners to download an app that supposedly allows the camera on the device to see through clothes are circulating in Japan. This type of spam is usually sent by the malware authors themselves, but in this case the authors have developed an app to send the spam messages […]

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