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Mac Trojan Flashback.B Checks for VM

12
Oct
2011

One of our analysts has discovered something interesting while debugging the latest version of Flashback, a Mac trojan that attempts to trick people into believing it’s an Adobe Flash Player update. While comparing the differences between Flashback.A and Flashback.B, he saw this routine: Flashback.B performs a “vmcheck”. If virtualization is detected, the trojan aborts itself. […]

Category General Written by F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog 0 Comments

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Google Web History Vulnerable to Firesheep Hack

11
Sep
2011

Two researchers have shown how a modded version of the Firesheep Wi-Fi sniffing tool can be used to access most of a victim’s Google Web History, a record of everything an individual has searched for. The core weakness discovered by the proof-of-concept attack devised by Vincent Toubiana and Vincent Verdot lies with what is called […]

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