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These Aren’t the Droid Updates You’re Looking For

24

Oct

2011

Our Threat Solutions team discovered an interesting threat using a novel “infection vector” for Android today. Back in July, they analyzed Spyware:Android/SndApps, which, after an update, is able access various bits of personal information. Before the update, it only requests the “Internet” permission. It seems probable to us that users are less likely to carefully […]

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

Downloader.Chepvil and the Malicious Feedback Loop!

06

Oct

2011

Technical analysis: Poul Jensen, Illustrations: Ben Nahorney Meet Downloader.Chepvil, a malware that has been creating quite a lot of noise recently, hitting inboxes far and wide. This threat begins life as an innocent-looking email and quickly transforms itself into a powerful blended threat capable of stealing information, installing misleading applications, and mailing additional copies of […]

Category General Written by Symantec Security Response Blog 0 Comments

Be aware of Gmail phishing pages

23

Aug

2011

Phishing is certainly not a new attack vector but attackers are constantly using it to fool victims into entering sensitive information like authentication credentials. As I mentioned in a blog post a couple of years back, such attacks will never go away as phishing is a trivially easy attack vector that can be used to […]

Category Security Written by Zscaler Research 0 Comments

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