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Android Trojan Found in Targeted Attack

Mar

2013

In the past, we’ve seen targeted attacks against Tibetan and Uyghur activists on Windows and Mac OS X platforms. We’ve documented several interesting attacks (A Gift for Dalai Lamas Birthday and Cyber Attacks Against Uyghur Mac OS X Users Intensify) which used ZIP files as well as DOC, XLS and PDF documents rigged with exploits. […]

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New Trojan for Android can mount DDoS attacks

Dec

2012

The Russian anti-virus vendor Doctor Web warns Internet users about a new malicious program for Android. TheAndroid.DDoS.1.origin can carry out DDoS-attacks on various internet resources and send short messages upon a corresponding command from criminals. After installation, Android.DDoS.1.origin creates an application icon, similar to that of Google Play. If the user decides to use the […]

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New Trojan horse threatens Facebook users

Feb

2012

Doctor Web-the Russian anti-virus vendor-warns users of a Trojan.OneX program that uses infected machines to send spam via Facebook and messaging clients. Currently, two modifications of this Trojan horse with similar features are found regularly in the wild. Given the spreading scheme the number of victims can be extremely large. Trojan.OneX runs only under 32-bit […]

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