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‘Android/NotCompatible’ Looks Like Piece of PC Botnet

09

May

2012

A lot of recent attacks on Android users are attributed to fake websites of popular applications such as Cut the Rope, Instagram, Angry Birds, or Grand Theft Auto III. However, the very recently discovered malware NotCompatible uses a distribution method not previously seen in the mobile world. The malware hacks into vulnerable websites to inject […]

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Pastebin Shares Botnet Source Code

08

May

2012

Few days back, we found another Pastebin entry that contains a source which looks to be malicious botnet code. As I wrote in my earlier blog, malware authors also use Pastebin to trade botnet kits. Many times, snippets of a botnet help researchers understand the workings of the botnet and write detections for it.The code […]

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Targeting ZeroAccess Rootkit’s Achilles’ Heel

01

May

2012

ProliferationZeroAccess is one of the most talked and blogged [1], [2] about rootkits in recent times. It is also one of the most complex and highly prevalent rootkits we have encountered and which is still continuing to evolve. The ZeroAccess rootkit is distributed via both social engineering as well as exploitation. A recent blog post by our colleagues at McAfee, describes some […]

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