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Poison and EyeStye, by the numbers

02

Nov

2011

The latest MSRT release included coverage for two more malware families, one being Win32/EyeStye, which we discussed earlier this month, and the other being Win32/Poison. In tandem with our efforts to provide an antidote to the scourge of Win32/Poison infections via the MSRT, we’ve also today published a detailed MMPC Threat Report on the same […]

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Mobile threats on the desktop

20

Oct

2011

The MMPC has been routinely monitoring threats (via the desktop) that affect different mobile platforms such as Symbian, Java ME, Android, RIM, iOS and Windows Mobile. One of the increasingly common ways we see mobile devices being compromised is by allowing the user to download and install applications independently. This is because the consumer cannot […]

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SIRv11: Putting Vulnerability Exploitation into Context

14

Oct

2011

As Vinny Gullotto, our GM blogged earlier in the week, the 11th edition of the Security Intelligence Report (SIRv11) has been released. One of the new areas of research in this release is a study of the most prevalent kinds of vulnerability exploitation and how much of that exploitation is 0-day (short for zero-day, an […]

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