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OSX.FlashBack.K – An Overview and its Inner Workings

08

May

2012

In our previous blogs, [1], [2], [3], and [4], we described how a computer may become infected with OSX.Flashback.K and provided various statistics about infected computers. The purpose of this blog is to describe the inner workings of the threat. The ultimate goal of the OSX.Flashback.K Trojan is to generate money through ad-clicking. The threat […]

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OS X Mass Exploitation – Why Now?

19

Apr

2012

Market share! It’s an easy answer, but not the only one. In 2011, Apple was estimated to account for over 5% of worldwide desktop/laptop market share. This barrier was a significant one to break – Linux maintains under 2% market share and Google ChromeOS even less. This 15 year peak coincided with the first exploration […]

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The Cridex Trojan Targets 137 Financial Organizations in One Go

01

Mar

2012

A few weeks ago M86 Security Labs alerted that cybercriminals managed to compromise hundreds of WordPress-based sites. These attacks started with several large spam campaigns as reported in our most recent blog post on Cutwail. These emails included embedded URL links or HTML attachments that tricked the user to browse to the compromised Web sites. […]

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