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These Aren’t the Droid Updates You’re Looking For

24

Oct

2011

Our Threat Solutions team discovered an interesting threat using a novel “infection vector” for Android today. Back in July, they analyzed Spyware:Android/SndApps, which, after an update, is able access various bits of personal information. Before the update, it only requests the “Internet” permission. It seems probable to us that users are less likely to carefully […]

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Mac Trojan Disables XProtect Updates

19

Oct

2011

There’s something new brewing in Mac malware development (again). Recent analysis has revealed to us that Trojan-Downloader:OSX/Flashback.C disables the automatic updater component of XProtect, Apple’s built-in OS X anti-malware application. First, Flashback.C decrypts the paths of XProtectUpdater files that are hardcoded in its body: Flashback.C decrypts the path of the plist file of XProtectUpdater Flashback.C […]

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Is Anonymous still a “hacktivist” collective?

14

Oct

2011

Members of the Internet collective known as “Anonymous” are often described as hacktivists. But are they really? Or are they really just activists (is that what they’ve become)? We follow various Anonymous news accounts on Twitter and ever since the sub-collective, LulzSec, petered out, Anonymous has shifted away from talking about online attacks and hacks […]

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