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Pikspam: An SMS Spam Botnet

Dec

2012

The recent discovery of an Android SMS spam botnet by Cloudmark, which is detected by Symantec as Android.Pikspam, has gained media attention. While delivering spam by botnets is nothing new, mobile technology has opened up new attack vectors to cybercriminals who are using the proven attack techniques of social engineering and spam with success on […]

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Encrypted Scripts From Trojan Can Surprise Angry Birds Players

Sep

2012

The huge popularity of games such as Angry Birds Space, currently in the Top 50 of the most popular Free Apps in the Google Play Market, makes them a perfect cover for malware authors to distribute new malicious code and to target many users. Recently a new malware that downloads and rates apps in the […]

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Server-side Polymorphic Android Applications

Feb

2012

For quite some time, we have observed the technique of server-side polymorphism being used to infect Windows computers around the world. What this means is that every time a file is downloaded, a unique version of the file is created in order to evade traditional signature-based detection. We are now seeing this same technique being […]

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