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Urausy Lockscreen: Your computer will remain locked for 3 days, 11 hours and 20 minutes!

Jul

2013

Yes, if your computer gets infected by Urausy Lockscreen, it will get locked. Luckily, not forever! Avast protects you against it. In this blogpost we will introduce an infamous lockscreen called Urausy. We will look at its special anti-debugging and anti-reverse engineering tricks, at its communication protocol, and determine what the conditions (if any) are […]

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A Day in the Life of a Mobile Ransomware

Jul

2013

Last month, Symantec blogged about an Android malware named Android.Fakedefender that is the first example of a Ransomware that we have seen on the Android platform.Fortinet detects this malware as Android/FakeDefend.A!trThe malware’s operation can be broken down into 3 rough stages. For details of the modus operandus of this very sophisticated malware, read on.. CONVINCE […]

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The Java Autorun Worm, Java.Cogyeka (1 of 3)

Jul

2013

Java.CogyekaRecently there has been a lot of attention drawn to the vulnerabilities in Java and how they can lead to malware being created. However, it is worth noting that a vulnerability is not always required for malware to exist, as is the case with Java.Cogyeka. While this threat does not exploit any vulnerability in Java […]

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