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A tale of grannies, Chinese herbs, Tom Cruise, Alureon and steganography

26

Sep

2011

I’ve been monitoring the development of a particular strain of Alureon since the start of August this year. The installer (detected as Trojan:Win32/Alureon.FE – cc9a8000f80b6aecee30375e3277292a725acbfb) is easily distinguishable from more prevalent strains such as Trojan:Win32/Alureon.DX by the use of PE resources to store each component. This particular installer is often downloaded by variants of Trojan:Win32/Fakesysdef […]

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Japan, US Defense Industries Among Targeted Entities in Latest Attack

20

Sep

2011

Trend Micro has uncovered a campaign of targeted attacks that have successfully compromised defense industry companies in Japan, Israel, India and the USA. We have been able to identify eight victims of this attack and are in the process of notifying them. In total, the attackers compromised 32 computers; however, there were multiple compromises at […]

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Rooting Exploit for Android Works Silently

15

Sep

2011

In our last blog about Android malware, we discussed the expanding threat landscape for Android malware. Recently, we received an Android package in our collection and observed that this malicious application uses a rooting exploit that targets Android devices running OS Versions 2.3 or earlier to gain root privileges on the compromised device. The malware […]

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