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Recently, I talked at the VB2012 conference in Dallas about one of the recent developments in today’s threat landscape: the increasing prevalence of police ransomware. Earlier, Trend Micro published a white paper discussing this threat, titled The “Police Trojan”.The idea behind ransomware is relatively simple: the cybercriminals block the user from accessing their own computer. […]

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Just couple of years ago, it would have been unthinkable that governments would be openly recruiting trojan and backdoor developers to work for them. Yet, that’s exactly what’s happening now. For a fresh example, here’s an ad from the website of the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) They are looking for a developer. Let’s […]

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How easy is it for bad guys to buy valid digital certificates from CAs using fake data and then start signing Trojan bankers with them? In Brazil it appears to be very easy. Today most software developers digitally sign their programs. The process involves Certification Authorities (CAs) that must verify the authenticity of the files […]

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