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Google Play: Potentially Unwanted

11

Mar

2013

Google Play has a problem — and it isn’t malware. Depending on location, Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUA) can be rather difficult to avoid. Here’s a screenshot of User Reviews from a “weather widget” application: In English (both U.S. and U.K.), there are eight user reviews. Just eight. Even if you click on a link to […]

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Cybercriminals Hop On the Google Project Glass Bandwagon

01

Mar

2013

Cybercriminals tend to leverage what’s popular and new. Case in point, the much-anticipated Google Project Glass is being used as a social engineering lure to trick unsuspecting users into scams.We found that one of the top results for the search term “free Google glasses” is an eye-catching YouTube link with the title [{FREE}] Google Project Glass […]

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Modified Ichitaro .DLL File Leads to Backdoor

28

Feb

2013

The popular Japanese word processor software Ichitaro is no stranger to threats, particularly exploits taking advantage of the software’s vulnerabilities. Since 2007, we have reported the malware targeting Ichitaro’s security flaws.This time, however, we uncovered an attack that employs an old trick that even Microsoft Office was previously vulnerable to (CVE-2011-1980). Typically, when an application […]

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