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Free Android USSD vulnerability protection from ESET now on Google Play

02

Oct

2012

If you use an Android phone you may have heard of something called the USSD vulnerability. This allows a nasty piece of malicious software to reset your Android to its factory default settings and permanently delete your data. We will describe the USSD problem in more detail in a moment but first we want to […]

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CVE-2012-1535 and Nuclear Warheads

28

Sep

2012

Our corporate business team has a new “software updater” feature in our Protection Service they want to market. So they asked our lab analyst @TimoHirvonen to provide them with an example demonstrating the amount of time it takes to go from vulnerability to exploit.Here’s what Timo came up with using CVE-2012-1535: . 2012-08-14: Security update available for […]

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The United States of ZeroAccess

20

Sep

2012

Monday’s post included a screenshot of the ZeroAccess botnet as visualized in Google Earth. Well, we’ve finished cleaning up the KML file which now includes 139,447 bot locations based on IP addresses associated with approximately 2,600 samples. ZeroAccess is a very large botnet and there are millions of infections globally. Here’s the USA: Click the […]

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