Trojan Abuses Sendspace: A Closer Look

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 [...]

How Big will the Android Malware Threat Be in 2012?

In August 2011, we released our Snapshot of Android Threats, which stated that there was a significant increase in the number of Trojanized Android apps and actual malware targeting the Android platform. In our 12 Security Predictions For 2012, we mentioned that smartphone and tablet platforms, especially Android, will suffer from more cybercriminal attacks. [...]

German officials admit to deploying intercept software

Officials in a number of German state governments have owned up to using the Quellen-TKÜ Trojan Horse software in criminal investigations to intercept encrypted telecommunications on PCs. At least one state said it has suspended use of the software, after the Chaos Computer Club discovered that it could be controlled by anyone, not just [...]

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 [...]

KOOBFACE Propagates Via Torrent P2P File Sharing

The KOOBFACE botnet became known for using popular social network sites as vector for propagation and abusing these platforms for malicious purposes. Currently, it has been observed that KOOBFACE does not actively propagate via social networks, but rather propagates via a torrent peer-to-peer network through Trojanized shared application files. Based on our research, we found [...]