Posts Tagged ‘malicious application’

First fake-installer Trojan for Mac OS

Dec

2012

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web informs users about a new Trojan for Mac OS X dubbed Trojan.SMSSend.3666. The malicious scheme used to spread this Trojan is notorious among many Windows users but until now it hasn’t been employed to deceive owners of Macs. Trojan.SMSSend is a fake installer which can be downloaded from various sites […]

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Android/FakeToken 2.0 Goes Back to Basics

Oct

2012

In March a new type of financial attack on Android devices was found targeting customers of several banks in Europe. Dubbed FakeToken, one of the principal differences of this new threat-compared with previous Trojan bankers for Android such as Zitmo/Spitmo-was the fact that both authentication factors (Internet password and mTAN) were stolen directly from the […]

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BoteAR: a ?social botnet?? What are we talking about?

Oct

2012

In information security, talk about botnets equals talk about malicious actions that materialize through criminal action. In essence, we think there is always a hostile attitude on the part of those who administer them. Please correct me colleagues, refute this if I’m wrong, but I think conceptually you agree with me. BoteAR (developed in Argentina) […]

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