Apart from those apps that register users for unwanted services and those that aggressively push ads, Android users should also worry about apps with backdoor capabilities.While premium service abusers and adware accounted for the majority of malicious apps in 2012, they are, however, not the only threats to Android. Reports of a botnet running on […]
We recently discovered a Trojan that harvested documents on affected systems and uploaded them to the file hosting site, sendspace.com. This post will discuss more of our findings on the said attack. In order to infect users, email disguised as a shipment notification from Fedex were mass-mailed to target victims. This email contains a downloader […]
W32.Morto first made headlines in August because of its capability to spread by Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). The worm was unique because it was the first of its kind to use the protocol. However, this wasn't the only unique aspect of the worm. My colleague, Cathal Mullaney, also discovered that W32.Morto introduced the usage […]
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