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Trojan Abuses Sendspace: A Closer Look

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:02:00 +0000

We recently discovered a Trojan that harvested documents on affected systems and uploaded them to the file hosting site, sendspace.com. This post will discuss more of our findings on the said attack. In order to infect users, email disguised as a shipment notification from Fedex were mass-mailed to target victims. This email contains a [...]

Know Your Enemies Online [INFOGRAPHIC]

admin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:02:32 +0000

Because of users’ various connections and sharing habits, the Internet has become a social hub similar to a virtual neighborhood. However, not everyone on the Internet wants to socialize and create connections. There are people out there who craft online threats designed to steal your precious information, like your email address, social security details, [...]

Trending Scams Seen in the Android Market

admin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:02:23 +0000

Shortly after we reported about a fake Temple Run app in the Android Market, we were alerted to yet another developer that uses popular apps as guises to trick users into downloading rogue apps. Here, you can see the developer’s name which appears to be quite similar to the one who developed the popular [...]

Malicious Mobile Apps Found in Server Hosted in Germany

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:02:37 +0000

We’ve recently found a server that hosts a great number of sites that are used to launch mobile malware, targeting Android OS and Symbian (specifically the J2ME platform). The server, located in Germany, is managed by a hosting provider known as a haven for cyber criminals. We found a total of 1,351 websites hosted on [...]

Fake Version of Temple Run Unearthed in the Android Market

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:02:58 +0000

In our daily monitoring of the mobile threat landscape, we found a copy of the game Temple Run in the Android Market. Temple Run is a popular game app currently available for iOS only. I checked the app and immediately noticed something odd about it. I decided to analyze it to check if my doubts [...]

Fake Version of Temple Run Unearthed in the Wild

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:02:58 +0000

Malware Uses Sendspace to Store Stolen Documents

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:02:37 +0000

We’ve recently encountered malware that grabs MS Word and Excel files from users’ infected systems and then uploads them to the file hosting site sendspace.com. Sendspace is a file hosting website that offers file hosting to enable users to “send, receive, track and share your big files.” Sendspace was recently used for dropping stolen data [...]

BKDR_POISON: More Challenges Ahead

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:02:30 +0000

Last year, the security industry was plagued by a series of APT reports, which included the “Nitro Attack”. The backdoor used here is known as PoisonIvy or BKDR_POISON. Its builder is available online. Security vendors have then taken measures to counter this threat to help customers battle against similar infections in the future. However, a [...]

Mobile Threat Landscape: A Decade Later

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:02:12 +0000

We already knew that more and more people are becoming tablet and smartphone owners, but two new surveys that were released just this week reinforced that. A Google/Ipsos poll found that smartphone use was growing in all 5 surveyed countries. In the US, smartphone ownership rose from 31% to 38% of the population by September/October [...]

Search Monetization As a New Threat to the Mobile Platform

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:01:28 +0000

Last week we came across a report about a Plankton variant embedded in various apps emerging in the Android Market. One of the samples we inspected is a puzzle game called Sexy Ladies-2.apk, which is detected as ANDROIDOS_PLANKTON.P along with many other apps related to it. Other external reports tell of the millions of app downloads [...]