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An avalanche in Skype

04

Apr

2013

There is a new malicious ongoing campaign on Skype. It?s active and kicking yet. The infection vector is via social engineering abusing infected Skype by sending massive messages to the contacts like these ones: i don’t think i will ever sleep again after seeing this photo http://www.goo.gl/XXXXX?image=IMG0540250-JPG tell me what you think of this picture […]

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Targeted Attacks the Next Step in Mobile Malware

29

Mar

2013

The Android threat landscape continues to evolve in 2013. To distribute Android threats, malware authors are transitioning away from attacking traditional vectors like the Google Play Market and third-party Android markets to vectors like spam and phishing emails and SMS.Recently a new information-stealing Android malware was found being distributed as an attachment in emails as […]

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South Korean Wipers and Spear Phishing E-mails

25

Mar

2013

News broke last week of a “wiper” malware that affected South Korean banks and broadcasting companies. NSHC Red Alert Team has published a detailed analysis of the malware here. There were several hashes mentioned for the same component, which suggest multiple operations under the same campaign. So how did the affected companies get infected? No […]

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