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Signed Mac Malware Using Right-to-Left Override Trick

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Jul

2013

Right-to-left override (RLO) is a special character used in bi-directional text encoding system to mark the start of text that are to be displayed from right to left. It is commonly used by Windows malware such as Bredolab and the high-profile Mahdi trojan from last year to hide the real extension of executable files. Check […]

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Mac Spyware Found at Oslo Freedom Forum

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May

2013

The Oslo Freedom Forum is an annual event “exploring how best to challenge authoritarianism and promote free and open societies.” This year’s conference (which took place May 13-15) had a workshop for freedom of speech activists on how to secure their devices against government monitoring. During the workshop, Jacob Appelbaum actually discovered a new and […]

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DevilRobber Gets An Updated Version

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Nov

2011

We found an updated version of Backdoor:OSX/DevilRobber, which we posted about earlier. The updated version uses the same technique as its predecessor to disguise itself as a legitimate application, though this time it calls itself PixelMator. Based on the malware’s dump.txt file, this latest backdoor is identified as Version 3 (v3). The main point of […]

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