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South Korea, Starbucks, and Android/Smsilence

11

Apr

2013

Several weeks ago, an McAfee researcher named Michael Zhang analyzed an Android trojan which specifically targets South Korean phones. It’s called Smsilence, and it uses bait such as “Starbucks coupon” apps (ex: starbug.apk). Here’s the phone number check looking for country code +82: A detail not included in Zhang’s post: the URLs / IP addresses […]

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Police Ransomware Trojan Morphs, Spreads

04

Apr

2013

The Trojan.Icepol e-threat (that we’ve covered here before) is still alive and very much kicking. In fact, according to Bitdefender antimalware researcher Razvan Benchea, its developers are kicking out version after version, at rapid pace, in a (somewhat misguided) attempt to stay ahead of antivirus solutions. Bitdefender is keeping pace though, so (courtesy of the […]

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A New Exploit Kit in Neutrino

12

Mar

2013

Robust and stealthier toolkits are predicted to emerge this year. This was first seen when the WhiteHole Exploit Kit appeared in the threat landscape. It took advantage of several vulnerabilities including the infamous CVE-2013-0422.Additionally, there have been reports of another new exploit kit called “Neutrino” being sold in the underground. The exploit, which we detects […]

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