TrendLabs researchers were alerted of a newly released Proof-of-Concept (PoC) that listens and records voice calls carried out via Skype. Trend Micro detects this as TROJ_SPAYKE.C. Skype is a popular application used for making voice over IP (VoIP) calls.
Upon execution, the DLL component (also detected as TROJ_SPAYKE.C) intercepts Skype traffic and hooks the send and [...]
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Trojan Targets Skype Users
Users are under the impression that mobile phones are more secure than PCs, according to the latest Trend Micro survey. A number of users are found not practicing safe browsing when using their mobile phones.
The survey shows that 44% of over 1,000 respondents are lax when it comes to surfing using their mobile phones. The [...]
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Mobile Users Unfazed by Web Threats
Trend Micro threat analysts were alerted to the discovery of a spyware (detected as TSPY_EBOD.A) purporting to be an Adobe Flash Player update. Upon execution, the spyware creates a Firefox add-on called “Adobe Flash Player 0.2,” the installer of which uses JavaScript (detected as JS_EBOD.A) and appears to spread via forum posts.
The said add-on injects [...]
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Firefox Add-on Spies on Google Search Results
Recently we’ve encountered a cross-site scripting attack that targeted the Chinese social networking site Renren. Fortunately for users, it was quite harmless as far as these kinds of threats go—but it could have been much, much worse.
Renren users received messages from their friends with a link that pointed to a video of the Pink Floyd [...]
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XSS Attack Targets Chinese Social Networking Site
The much hyped built-in malware protection into Apple’s Snow Leopard upgrade appears to be nothing more than a XProtect.plist file containing five signatures for two of the most popular Mac OS X trojans – OSX.RSPlug and OSX.Iservice.
Intego, the company that originally reported the new feature, has just released a comparative review of their (commercial) antivirus [...]
