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Airpush exploited to spread Trojans onto Android devices

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Mar

2013

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users that the Airpush Mobile Ad network is often being exploited to spread Android.SmsSend Trojans. Unfortunately, messages displayed by Airpush can confuse users into downloading malware. Doctor Web has been receiving complaints regarding false positives by Dr.Web for Android; the anti-virus had been detecting Android.SmsSend.315.origin in the application […]

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Trojan.Hosts malware infects eight thousand computers every day

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Mar

2013

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users about the growing number of compromised websites from which Trojan.Hosts malware is being downloaded onto computers. In early 2013 the threat spread at almost epidemic magnitude. The outbreak remained at its peak in January and mid-February when as many as 9,500 computer infections were being registered every […]

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MSRT December ’12 – Phdet

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Dec

2012

Phdet is the family which has been added to the December 2012 release of the Malicious Software Removal Tool. Phdet is a family of backdoor trojans that have the ability to perform distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The bot can be found online, going by the formal name of “Black Energy”. The DDoS bot has […]

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