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Relentless Zbot and Anti-emulations

03

Jul

2012

A couple of months ago, Microsoft took out some Trojan.Zbot servers across the world. The impact was short-lived. Even though for a span of about two weeks, we saw virtually no Trojan.Zbot activity, relentless Trojan.Zbot activity has resumed-with some added new social-engineering techniques as well as some new techniques to help Trojan.Zbot avoid antivirus detection.The […]

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Foncy is dead. Long live Mania

29

May

2012

The story of the Foncy SMS Trojan started during the fall of 2011. This piece of malware was one of the first SMS Trojans targeting users outside Russia and China. Potential victims were from various countries in Europe, North America and Africa. In the middle of January 2012 Foncy was updated: it started to spread […]

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ZTE Score: Privilege of Escalation in a Nutshell

24

May

2012

Contributor: Branko Spasojevic A recent post on Pastebin revealed that a simple command can provide root access to the ZTE Score mobile device. This escalation of privilege can give you full control of a ZTE Score M phone running Android 2.3.4 (Gingerbread). We analyzed both the MetroPCS and Cricket Wireless versions of the device and […]

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