ESET Mobile Security scores full marks in banking Trojan test
Written by v2r on May 15, 2013 – 5:29 pm -ESET Mobile Security has scored full marks for detecting mobile banking Trojans, in a group test conducted by Germany’s AV-TEST , a leading independent security research institute. In a group test of 11 security apps, ESET Mobile Security detected 100% of threats. “AV-TEST checked 11 security apps to see if they were able t...
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Updated Cruel Boston Marathon spam lures users to exploit pages
Written by v2r on April 17, 2013 – 7:46 am -You probably think the person or people behind the Boston Marathon bombing are reprehensible and callous at the very least. Well, meet their cousins – the slimebags behind the latest malware-distributing spam run we have seen ramp-up overnight. Members of the AVG Web Threats Research team have discovered spam messages using the B...
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Zbot family runs on selected systems only
Written by v2r on April 12, 2013 – 9:00 am -It is pretty usual when you try to analyze some malware that does not run in virtual machine or emulator. Using usually very well known tricks it can prevent itself from being analyzed. But what if it does not run even on real computer? The following sample, part of the zbot family, uses volume CLSID comparison as a security chec...
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Don’t save that date – bogus wedding invitations are latest spam trend but also deja vu
Written by v2r on March 28, 2013 – 5:45 pm -[Edited 3/29/13 to add VirusRadar map and more source links.] “Wedding Invitation” is exactly the sort of subject line that might tempt unwary PC users into opening an email, even if it arrives by surprise. No surprise then that the fake wedding invite has re-emerged as an infection path, as recently noted by the good folks at ...
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Pirated software use triples – leaving PC users at risk of infection
Written by v2r on March 28, 2013 – 5:08 pm -Use of pirated and counterfeit Windows software has tripled since 2006, according to analysts IDC – creating a fertile breeding ground for malware. For the report, entitled ‘The Dangerous World of Pirated and Counterfeit Software’, IDC analysts conducted 533 tests on counterfeit software from P2P and web sources. The test...
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Don’t always trust your browser’s address bar!
Written by v2r on March 12, 2013 – 2:00 pm -Recently, we have come across a Brazilian trojan horse trying to steal online banking credentials, again. This information is not surprising at all as Brazil is still one of the top countries producing this kind of malware. Quality of these samples varies along with the techniques used to fool the online banking users but the...
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Attention! All data on your hardrive is encrypted
Written by v2r on January 30, 2013 – 1:14 pm -We have seen various mutations of the well known “police ransomware” Trojan throughout the year. Despite the threatening and convincing message it carries, most people probably choose to avoid the “fine” by simply removing the malware. Well, the following ransomware is little bit different. After the sample ...
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PokerAgent botnet stealing over 16,000 Facebook credentials
Written by v2r on January 29, 2013 – 10:00 am -The ‘PokerAgent’ botnet, which we have tracked in 2012, was designed to harvest Facebook log-on credentials, also collecting information on credit card details linked to the Facebook account and Zynga Poker player stats, presumably with the intention to mug the victims. The threat was mostly active in Israel. 800 comput...
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Trends for 2013: astounding growth of mobile malware
Written by v2r on December 11, 2012 – 4:55 pm -In 2012 the number of unique detections of malware for Android increased globally by a factor of 17X (yes, that is 1,700%), and we expect the increase in 2013 to be even greater. This is one of the main predictions in the white paper we are releasing today: "Trends for 2013: astounding growth of mobile malware" (PDF). As...
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Latest on Police Ransomware – It Speaks!
Written by v2r on December 10, 2012 – 12:47 pm -Yes, it does. And depending on where you are located, it can even speak in your mother tongue. As discussed in our paper Police Ransomware Update, the people behind police Trojan/Ransomware have implemented improvements to make this threat more effective. Gone are the days when ransomware simply showed a message that users’ syste...
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