A day or two ago, our friends at Symantec released a blog post about the growing success of "ransomware". (They also have a whitepaper here, and a nice gallery of screenshots of several variations here.) Briefly, ransomware is malware that either locks up a computer, or encrypts data files, and then offers to restore access […]
If you have not heard of this term yet, I guarantee you will in the months to come. The term is market spam. This is not a new term or an issue that affects one or two app stores; this is a systemic problem that impacts app stores at large, where spammers focus on getting […]
“Customer Feedback” is always important, even when they are victims of state-sponsored attacks Although the Flamer Trojan has “committed suicide” quite a while ago, we continue the malware forensics saga with a new episode. Today, we will be describing a less-documented feature of Flamer called advnetcfg.ocx – a module that acts both as an antivirus […]
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