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Mac Spyware: OSX/KitM (Kumar in the Mac)

22

May

2013

There’s another case of Backdoor:OSX/KitM.A in the wild. A German-based investigator reached out to us yesterday regarding OSX/KitM. (We wrote about it last week.) KitM stands for “Kumar in the Mac”, which is our designation for spyware — related to OSX/Filesteal a.k.a. OSX/HackBack — that is signed using an Apple Developer ID in the name […]

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Twitter’s Password Fails

07

May

2013

Let’s say you want to hack Jack Dorsey‘s online banking account. Where to start? His username? Challenging… his online banking username is a secret. But how about his Twitter account? Oh, that’s easy. It’s @jack. That’s the problem with “social” usernames — they’re meant to be known. Another problem, Twitter appears to validate e-mail addresses: […]

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Online Activities Related to Elections in Malaysia

03

May

2013

Malaysia’s 2013 general elections are scheduled for Sunday, May 5, 2013. Political news coverage is currently inundating all news outlets, including social networking sites, as the country’s political parties go into high gear in the final run-up to polling day. The huge media interest creates an opportunity for malware writers to gain new victims using […]

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