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Ransomware is Nasty Stuff

10

Nov

2012

A day or two ago, our friends at Symantec released a blog post about the growing success of "ransomware". (They also have a whitepaper here, and a nice gallery of screenshots of several variations here.) Briefly, ransomware is malware that either locks up a computer, or encrypts data files, and then offers to restore access […]

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Russian Android Gangs Keep Scamming Along

07

Sep

2012

It's been a while since we looked at the Android malware space (I think the last one was here), so when someone asked about it yesterday, I pulled up some log traffic to take a look. It looks like Russia and China continue to be hotbeds for unofficial app download sites, where you're definitely taking […]

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New Java 0-day used in small number of attacks

28

Aug

2012

Over the weekend, information started appearing that there was a new Java zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2012-4681) being used in a small number of attacks. We have analyzed samples from the attack and can confirm that Websense customers using products that have our Advanced Classification Engine (ACE) have been protected against this zero-day attack by real-time analytics […]

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