ZBOT Variant That Uses Domain-Generation Technique Spreads Through Facebook Lure

Our team recently came across a spam run that leads to the download of a ZBOT variant that uses a domain-generation technique. The spam run involves messages that arrive in users’ inboxes as Facebook friend request notifications. The message bears a link that the users must click to approve the friend request. Clicking the [...]

ZBOT Variant That Uses Domain-Generation Technique Spreads Through Facebook

Our team recently encountered a spam run that leads to the download of a ZBOT variant that uses domain-generation technique. The spam run involves messages that arrive in users’ inboxes as a Facebook friend request notification. The message bears a link that the user must click to approve the friend request. Clicking the said [...]

Spamvertised Uniform traffic tickets and invoices lead to malware

Researchers from Sophos have intercepted two currently active spamvertised malware campaigns, enticing users into downloading and executing malicious attachments.

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A Snapshot of Android Threats [INFOGRAPHIC]

January this year, Trend Micro Chairman and co-founder Steve Chang was quoted as saying that Android devices are less secure than those running on iOS. While his comment caused quite a stir back then, today’s threat landscape seems to agree: since Steve’s statement, our researchers saw a whopping 1410% increase in the number of Trojanized [...]

DroidDreamLight Variant Pretends to Manage APK Files

We recently found a new variant of DroidDreamLight in the Android Market. The app promotes itself as an application which helps users manage APK files on their device. The sample was downloaded 50-100 times before it was removed from the Android Market. The malware sample we found, detected as ANDROIDOS_DORDRAE.M, is inside an app called [...]