Posts Tagged ‘new threat’

Trojan.Batchwiper Reported in Iran

Dec

2012

On December 16, 2012, CERTCC-IR posted an advisory regarding a new threat that wipes disks. We have recovered samples matching the hashes mentioned in their advisory and, based on preliminary analysis, can confirm their findings.The samples are not sophisticated and will wipe any drives starting with the drive letters D through I, along with files […]

Category General Written by Symantec Security Response Blog 0 Comments

Police Ransomware: Evolving At a Tremendous Pace

Nov

2012

The Police Ransomware is not a new threat but has been evolving at a tremendous pace. Here we are talking about Trojans which don’t let the victims use their computer until they pay a “fine” for doing naughty things. To do this, they impersonate local police forces by using the infected user’s regional settings – […]

Category General Written by Security Intelligence 0 Comments

Android/FakeToken 2.0 Goes Back to Basics

Oct

2012

In March a new type of financial attack on Android devices was found targeting customers of several banks in Europe. Dubbed FakeToken, one of the principal differences of this new threat-compared with previous Trojan bankers for Android such as Zitmo/Spitmo-was the fact that both authentication factors (Internet password and mTAN) were stolen directly from the […]

Category General Written by Blog Central > McAfee Labs 0 Comments

The Latest in IT Security

Posts Tagged ‘new threat’

Trojan.Batchwiper Reported in Iran

Police Ransomware: Evolving At a Tremendous Pace

Android/FakeToken 2.0 Goes Back to Basics

Categories

Featured

Archives

Latest Comments

About Us

Contact Us