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The truth behind the Shady RAT

05

Aug

2011

McAfee published an interesting report yesterday about what they called Operation Shady RAT, focusing on a series of what some may call “advance persistent threat” attacks. The attacks were dubbed in some quarters as “one of the largest series of cyber attacks ever.” While quite a bit of data was presented regarding the potential scale […]

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Spammers Take Advantage of Unicode Normalization to Hide URLs

04

Aug

2011

by Francisco Pardo and Nick Johnston Spammers are never idle when it comes to finding new ways to bypass mail filters—after all, this is crucial to a spammer's success. Recently, we've seen a low but steady number of spam messages in which spammers are replacing certain characters in URLs (which point to spam sites) with […]

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Android threat trend shows that criminals are thinking outside the box

19

Jul

2011

A quick online search would reveal a number of articles declaring any one of the last few years as being the “year of mobile malware.” Conversely, these searches also reveal that claim that the same years are not going to be the year of mobile malware. These search results go back as far as the […]

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