It seems like Bitcoin is gaining popularity not only in the computing industry, but in the threat landscape as well.We’ve recently reported a couple of attacks involving malware that installs a Bitcoin mining application into affected systems. Apart from turning systems into unwilling “miners”, such malware also disrupt usage, since the mining process takes up […]
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 […]
We’ve published a detailed analysis of Sality in a whitepaper titled, “Sality: Story of a Peer-to-Peer Viral Network.” Sality is a file infector that spreads by infecting executable files and by replicating itself across network shares. Infected hosts join a peer-to-peer network used to propagate malware on the compromised computer. Typically, those additional programs will […]
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