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Linux Kernel Exploit Ported to Android

Jun

2013

Malware authors are notorious for quickly leveraging new exploits in the public domain for nefarious purposes. The recent discovery of a Linux Kernel CVE-2013-2094 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2013-2094) in the Performance Counters for Linux (PCL)-currently being exploited on various platforms-has now been modified to work on the Android operating system. For anyone unfamiliar with […]

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Dragon Boat Festival: Now Driving Away Spam Too

Jun

2013

The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duanwu Festival, is an important traditional holiday that has been celebrated by Chinese people as well as other people in East Asian societies for nearly 2,000 years. It is a day for people to drive away epidemics and evil spirits in summer by holding a series of […]

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Not the Mobile Antivirus You Were Looking For

Jun

2013

While browsing Malaysiakini (a popular Malaysian website) on an Android phone, one of our analysts spotted this advertisement: Clicking on the ad led to an external site displaying the following: Looks reminiscent of the kind of text we’ve seen for years on webpages pushing rogues for Windows systems (and sometimes Mac). Clicking on the “Download […]

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