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Malware evolving to defeat anti-DDoS services like CloudFlare?

14

Feb

2013

Could distributed denial of service (DDoS) malware be evolving to defeat anti-DDoS security measures like CloudFlare? We do not usually see a lot of innovative denial-of-service malware in our day-to-day work. What we do see usually boils down to the basic flooding techniques: TCP Syn, UDP and ping floods, and sometimes HTTP-oriented floods. Of course, […]

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Fake Cleaning Apps in Google Play: an AutoRun Attack and More

08

Feb

2013

Almost exactly one year ago, Google announced the addition of a “new layer to Android security,” a service codenamed Bouncer that was intended to provide automated scanning of the Android Market for potentially malicious software. However, as my colleague Jimmy Shah wrote in a previous blog post, Bouncer has not been enough to keep all […]

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UPS Phishing page with malware

17

Nov

2012

For some time now, attackers have been faking popular websites like YouTube to entice users into downloading and installing malicious software disguised as plugin updates or video codecs. I rcently found a page that is using the same technique to distribute a malicious executable through a fake UPS page. The page is located at hxxp://www.retinamac.ru/UPS/. […]

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