Posts Tagged ‘malicious application’

United States Cyber Security Ransomware Scam

Sep

2012

In this blog post, I would like to introduce one variant of the widely spread malware family, often detected by avast! as “Reveton.” Reveton is classified as ransomware; a program which locks your computer and expects an action, usually the payment of money. Unless the desired amount of money is paid or the malicious application […]

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Cross-platform Trojan controls Windows and Mac machines

Jul

2012

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users about a dangerous cross-platform Trojan horse that provides criminals with full control over infected machines and can render a system non-operational. The malicious application, dubbed BackDoor.DaVinci.1, runs both in Windows and Mac OS X. Notably, the version for Mac OS X for the first time features rootkit […]

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Evolution of Android Malware : IRCBot for Android

May

2012

We all know how fast the smart phone market is growing. Along with it, the complexity and the numbers of the mobile malware is also on the raise. Just going by that, while I was going through our mobile malware collection, I found an interesting piece of malware for Android. This malware acts as an […]

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