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Android malware employs steganography

30

Jan

2012

Amidst my usual adventure with Android malware analysis, I saw this snippet of code while skimming through a particular sample’s class modules. Figure 1 Late last year, I was looking deeper into Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image format, especially about the fields that hold textual information. Upon seeing the code, it immediately triggered my suspicion […]

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Apple releases iOS 4.3.4/4.2.9 to fix JailBreakMe.com flaw

16

Jul

2011

After a little more than a week after disclosure, Apple has patched three flaws in iOS for iPod Touch, iPad, iPad2, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and the Verizon iPhone. You may recall the return of the website JailBreakMe.com 10 days ago which exploited these vulnerabilities to provide an easy method of jailbreaking your iDevice. The […]

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Obfuscated IP addresses and Affiliate IDs in Mac FakeAV

10

Jun

2011

The current wave of Mac OS X FakeAV infection follows a three-step process. To those familiar with Windows-based FakeAV, the pattern in this infection chain is quite familiar. Displays a “scanning page” from poisoned Google searches Prompts a download of a .ZIP which contains a .PKG installer. This installer installs a downloader. The downloader downloads […]

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