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Are You Beta Testing Malware pt 2: Dissecting Fynloski’s Obfuscation

09

Jan

2012

This post is part two of two. In our previous post, we came across a couple of files that used some popular games as part of its social engineering technique. One of the files, which was named “diablo3-crack.exe” (after Diablo the video game series) is currently detected as Backdoor:Win32/Fynloski.A. It piqued our interest because we’re […]

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Are you beta testing malware?

07

Jan

2012

This post is part one of two. Popular games are often used by malware writers as social engineering bait as documented in previous blogs (“Dota Players Own3d” and “Keeping Kerrigan From Infection“). So, with a watchful eye for anything related to games used as an infection vector, we came across a couple of interesting files: […]

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Malicious cloned games attack Google Android Market

12

Dec

2011

In the world of Android, a successful attack on applications hosted on Google’s Android Market is equivalent to a successful attack using Black hat search engine optimization routines, which are often seen in Windows malware, primarily in fake anti-virus software. By exploiting the reputation of the most reputable content source, Android Market or a search […]

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