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‘Bioskits’ Join Ranks of Stealth Malware

08

Jun

2012

We have seen many discussions of the MyBios “Bioskit” discovered at the end of 2011. MyBios was the first malware to successfully infect the Award BIOS and survive the reboot. It was first discovered by a Chinese security company; many other security vendors published detailed analyses after that.We have seen a lot of samples targeting […]

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AVG Threatwatch Week: 16

24

Apr

2012

Android malware poses as Angry Birds Space game What’s the story? The latest version of the immensely popular “Angry Birds” series has already seen fake imitations in the Android Marketplace. The infected version of the fake “Angry Birds Space” contains a Trojan which security company Sophos has detected as Andr/KongFu-L. While the imitation appears to […]

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Hundreds of Thousands of Macs Infected by Flashback Malware

05

Apr

2012

Since the latest variants of the Flashback malware have appeared, this malware has been very effective in infecting Macs. Exploiting a Java vulnerability, infections occurred, in many cases, with no user intervention. Russian security company Dr. Web, which analyzed server traffic to the Flashback command and control severs, estimates that more than 500,000 Macs are […]

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