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Olmasco bootkit: next circle of TDL4 evolution (or not?)

18

Oct

2012

ESET – Olmasco (also known as SST, MaxSS) is a modification of the TDL4 bootkit family that we’ve been aware of since summer 2011. We started to track a new wave of activity from a new Olmasco dropper at the end of this summer. This bootkit family was the second to use VBR (Volume Boot […]

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New ZitMo for Android and Blackberry

07

Aug

2012

Ten months ago we’ve published an article about ZeuS-in-the-Mobile which contains an overview of everything we knew about ZitMo at that moment. The paper finishes with the following prediction: ‘they [attacks involving ZitMo] will become more specifically targeted against a smaller number of victims’. This prediction appears to have been correct. It’s not that often […]

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Malicious Versions of Best-Selling Android Games Spreading In Russia

26

Jul

2012

Despite the presence of the legitimate Google Play app store, cybercriminals are still hooking users by distributing malicious Android games themselves. Now, they’re taking advantage of a list of best-selling Android games. As before, the criminals have created .RU domains for each Android game they’re (supposedly) distributing. Links to these domains will spread via forum […]

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