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Linux Trojan “Hand of Thief” ungloved

27

Aug

2013

A new threat for the Linux platform was first mentioned on August 7th by RSA researchers, where it was dubbed Hand of Thief. The two main capabilities of this Trojan are form-grabbing of Linux-specific browsers and entering a victim’s computer by a back-door. Moreover, it is empowered with features like anti-virtualization and anti-monitoring. With the […]

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Blackhat USA 2011 Talks

05

Aug

2011

Blackhat USA 2011 wraps up and the Defcon conference starts today. There is a little something for everyone in security here. Aside from the contests, networking, meeting folks in the industry and putting faces to names, I thought that the briefings had two fantastic talks. The first of the two focused on breaking out of […]

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Update Center targets Chrome and Firefox with fake flash updates

11

Jul

2011

Browser specific scams have mostly been seen in the realm of rogue AV attacks, but here’s one (located at update-center(dot)myftp(dot)org) that checks out your browsing credentials then sends you to one of the below locations for a fake flash update: IE8: Redirected to usa(dot)gov. No fake flash for IE users. It’s a different story for […]

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