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OSX.Flashback.K – The motivation behind the malware – $$$

30

Apr

2012

We've been busy in the labs reverse engineering the various components of OSX.Flashback.K to determine the true motivation behind the malware. Let's take a look at this Mac Trojan in more detail. The Infection It's now well-known that the latest OSX.Flashback.K variant was being distributed using the Oracle Java SE Remote Java Runtime Environment Code […]

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Android.Bmaster: A Million-Dollar Mobile Botnet

09

Feb

2012

Introduction We recently came across a new piece of Android malware, first highlighted by NC State’s Xuxian Jiang, and began investigating the command-and-control (C&C) servers associated with the threat. The malware was discovered on a third party marketplace (not the Android Market) and is bundled with a legitimate application for configuring phone settings. Trojanized applications […]

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Bitcoin Mining Malware

23

Aug

2011

For those unfamiliar, Bitcoin is a digital P2P currency (here’s a more detailed video explanation if interested) – people interact with it using locally or hosted “wallet” software. It should not come as much of a surprise that malware has been designed to target abuse of this digital currency the same as any other (e.g., […]

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