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Are “Offerwalls” siphoning your personal information?

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Oct

2011

A relatively new development in app advertising has a concerning feature. It leeches much of the same information that many Android Trojans also steal. Through an app promotion campaign, a new feature called “offerwalls” are used by Pay Per Install (PPI) services to promise further adoption and revenue for app developers. But what is the […]

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Mac Trojan Disables XProtect Updates

19

Oct

2011

There’s something new brewing in Mac malware development (again). Recent analysis has revealed to us that Trojan-Downloader:OSX/Flashback.C disables the automatic updater component of XProtect, Apple’s built-in OS X anti-malware application. First, Flashback.C decrypts the paths of XProtectUpdater files that are hardcoded in its body: Flashback.C decrypts the path of the plist file of XProtectUpdater Flashback.C […]

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Step 1 – infect millions of computers. Step 2 – ?

19

Sep

2011

Someone somewhere is trying hard. The “someone” is a cybercriminal or organization, and since the 8th of August they have been trying hard to infect millions of computers worldwide. The purpose of this vast computing force is still not clear. The attacks of the last month have made extensive use of email-attached malware, resulting in […]

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