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Mac Trojan Flashback.B Checks for VM

12

Oct

2011

One of our analysts has discovered something interesting while debugging the latest version of Flashback, a Mac trojan that attempts to trick people into believing it’s an Adobe Flash Player update. While comparing the differences between Flashback.A and Flashback.B, he saw this routine: Flashback.B performs a “vmcheck”. If virtualization is detected, the trojan aborts itself. […]

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This Python Has Venom!

08

Oct

2011

Analysis by Poul Jenson and Masaki Suenega Spotted by Karthik Selvaraj Here at Symantec Security Response we have discovered Python.Pytroj, a proof-of-concept virus that infects .pyc files with arbitrary code. In case you are unfamiliar with Python here is a brief description. Python is a programming language which can run on most major operating systems. […]

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Goodbye, Steve Jobs

06

Oct

2011

Steve Jobs has died. Google has altered its home page in tribute: The words “Steve Jobs” link to apple.com: And Apple’s image of Jobs links to this message: It’s a rather moving tribute. It’s also a good security move on the part of Google. As soon as we heard the news, we started looking out […]

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