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Carrier IQ snoops on US cell users – Spyware or service monitoring tool?

01

Dec

2011

Last week a very scary piece of research was published by Trevor Eckhart about spyware that is being included on cellular phones in the United States. The commercial software application is called Carrier IQ and is reportedly being used by Verizon, Sprint and potentially other carriers. Carrier IQ was unhappy with Eckhart publishing public copies […]

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MSRT November ’11: Carberp

09

Nov

2011

We included three threat families in the November edition of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool – Win32/Carberp, Win32/Cridex and Win32/Dofoil. In this post, we discuss Win32/Carberp. The first variant of Win32/Carberp was discovered early last year. This malware has evolved from a trojan downloader that downloads an additional password stealer, such as PWS:Win32/Ldpinch, to […]

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Not such a nice hack, Nice Pack

07

Nov

2011

One of the most prevalent scripts we have been seen used to compromise legitimate web sites over the past few months is something our products block as Mal/Iframe-W. The threat name describes the payload – some iframe, to load content from a remote site. In this blog, I will elaborate a little more on the […]

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