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Home   »   Archives for October 2012

Gamarue Malware Goes to Germany

  • Posted on:October 29, 2012 at 1:07 pm
  • Posted in:Malware, Spam
  • Author:
    Jessa De La Torre (Senior Threat Researcher)
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The hotel booking spam recently reported has made its way into German users’ inboxes. The email purporting to be from one of the Brenners Park-Hotel and Spa in Austria has a similar theme to its English counterpart as it contains confirmation and details on an alleged booking reservation. The email sample above was sent to…

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How Mobile Ads Abuse Permissions

  • Posted on:October 29, 2012 at 3:16 am
  • Posted in:Mobile
  • Author:
    Alice Decker (Senior Threat Researcher)
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It has become an inevitable part of the Android user experience that apps will ask for a long laundry list of permissions. Many apps will ask you to grant them network access so they can download updates. Others seek permission to read your phone’s state and identity so calls won’t disrupt them from doing what…

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Road to Windows 8 Security: Improved, but with Bumps

  • Posted on:October 26, 2012 at 11:26 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Author:
    Jamz Yaneza (Threat Research Manager)
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With its launch of Windows 8, Microsoft promises a rejuvenated OS and brand that translate to improved user experience. But when it comes to security, did Microsoft take it up a notch? Beyond Window 8’s interface and over-all experience, users are also concerned with its resilience against threats. Below are some of my observations on…

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How to Detect APT Activity with Network Traffic Analysis

  • Posted on:October 25, 2012 at 2:35 am
  • Posted in:Targeted Attacks
  • Author:
    Nart Villeneuve (Senior Threat Researcher)
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Today’s successful targeted attacks use a combination of social engineering, malware, and backdoor activities. Though there are a variety of tools available to attackers, they tend to prefer specific ones. While they can routinely create new malware executables with automated builders and embed them in documents designed to exploit vulnerabilities in popular office software, the…

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Watering Holes and Zero-Day Attacks

  • Posted on:October 23, 2012 at 12:29 pm
  • Posted in:Malware
  • Author:
    Nart Villeneuve (Senior Threat Researcher)
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The term “Watering Hole” has become a popular way to describe targeted malware attacks in which the attackers compromise a legitimate website and insert a “drive-by” exploit in order to compromise the website’s visitors. Two recent papers by our friends at RSA and Symantec documented such attacks. Of course, such attacks are not new. This…

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