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Android Malware Pairs Man-in-the-Middle With Remote-Controlled Banking Trojan

15

Mar

2012

Based on the Android malware that we’ve seen so far, one of the principal motivations to develop and spread malware on Android is to gain financial profit. We often see deceptive applications that send SMS messages to premium-rate numbers without the user’s consent or that run man-in-the-middle attacks to forward SMS messages to an attacker […]

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A Rogue by any other name…

02

Mar

2012

Rogue:Win32/FakePAV reappeared about two weeks ago after a brief hiatus and since then we’ve been seeing variants with new names for themselves just about every day. The latest versions call themselves names like “Windows Threats Destroyer”, “Windows Firewall Constructor”, “Windows Attacks Preventor” and “Windows Basic Antivirus”. You can see some examples of these iterations below. […]

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Phony Delta, American Airlines itineraries lead to malware

17

Nov

2011

A malware-email outbreak in the past 24 hours uses phony Delta airline itineraries to entice users to click on the embedded links. The social engineering of an attack such as this is very effective – particularly since the email looks very authentic: If you are planning a trip then you this will look all wrong […]

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