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Tapjacking: An Untapped Threat in Android

15

Dec

2012

Using social engineering tricks, a developer can create an app that tricks users into tapping a specifically-crafted app popup window (called toast view), making it a gateway for varied threats.This attack, dubbed tapjacking, takes advantage of a specific vulnerability in Android user interaction (UI) component.This technique is not very complicated but has serious security implications […]

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UK based malware employing backdoor Anti-VM Tricks

12

Dec

2012

Recently we have noticed a new variant of backdoor malware spreading in UK networks using interesting anti-virtual machine tricks.Today’s malware uses anti-emulation and anti-debugging tricks on a daily basis to prevent malware researchers from debugging or emulating a particular sample. The vast majority of malware files still consist of simple anti-emulation tricks like calling less […]

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‘Jacked frost’ Facebook scam goes wild and doubles over the weekend

10

Dec

2012

Last week we wrote a blog about a specific Facebook scam that appeared to spread rather aggresively. We have decided to nickname the scam "Jacked Frost." The Websense® ThreatSeeker™ network detected that the scam has increased and multiplied over the weekend – particularly on Saturday where we saw the amount of unique URLs related to this scam double. This shows how cyber crooks time […]

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