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W32.Wergimog is a worm that attempts to spread through removable drives and opens a back door. When I looked into its variants, I found an interesting sample, which I named W32.Wergimog.B. Both...

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If the smartphones of ESET bloggers are any indication, scams executed via SMS text, known as smishing or SMS phishing, are on the rise. I don't do a lot of texting, which makes a smish easy to...

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Google is set to launch Android 5.0, aka Jelly Bean, this fall. But do we even need it? While Google has made some steps in securing its Play branded marketplace, and offered a few security updates...

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The hackers in charge of the Flashback botnet managed to generate $14,000 from their click fraud campaign, but have not been paid, Symantec said Thursday. New analysis of the Flashback botnet and...

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Adoption of Android tablets and smartphones in large businesses has been "severely limited" because of the complexities of managing the various Android models and versions, market research firm...

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Today sees the highly-anticipated IPO (Initial Public Offering) of the social-networking site Facebook. The IPO is expected to be several times oversubscribed as the demand for shares greatly exceeds...

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The ZTE Score M phone, apparently available via Metro PCS in the US, comes with a special suid backd ...(more)...

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On Monday, we released our Mobile Threat Report for Q1, and in that report we mention there's a growing number of mobile trojans that "deliver on their promises". What do we mean by that? Well, in...

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Jarno Niemela, a Senior Researcher here at F-Secure Labs, will be taking part in a Black Hat Webcast on Thursday, May 17, 2012. The subject is "Making Life Difficult for Malware" and will focus on...

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The Documentary, a BBC World Service program (or programme) recently aired a 3-part series called Danger In The Download. It's definitely worth a listen. All of the episodes are now available...

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It's time to publicly release our latest Mobile Threat Report, covering the 1st quarter of 2012. Our Q4 2011 report was quite popular and this new one for Q1 is even better. More content (and pages)...

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Yesterday, I suggested that nonymous speech is vastly superior to anonymous DDoS attacks and other forms of censorship. Today, I offer this "anti-piracy" PSA (circa 1988) as evidence to support my...

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UK Courts recently ordered Internet Service Providers to block access to The Pirate Bay. Yesterday, Virgin Media was attacked by some that claim associations to the Anonymous collective. Well, The...

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Jarno Niemela, a Senior Researcher here at F-Secure Labs, will be taking part in a Black Hat Webcast on Thursday, May 17, 2012. The subject is "Making Life Difficult for Malware" and will focus on...

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Ran across quite an interesting infection today. I visited a site that prompted me with a security warning about a "Microsoft" application from an unknown publisher. The site is actually pretending...

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The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point (USA) has released a study called "Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Ladin Sidelined?". The study provides analysis of 17 declassified documents captured last...

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Syria has been the center of much international attention lately. There's unrest in the country and the authoritarian government is using brutal tactics against dissidents. These tactics include...

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Somehow these SQL Injections targeting ASP/ASP.net sites just never seem to abate. First there was Lizamoon… surprising us with the millions of websites that got injected. Then came a few...

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So how bad was last month's Mac Flashback outbreak and who suffered the most? Our guess: it was bad, and university IT help desks. And it looks like our guess might not be far off the mark. Oxford...

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Regular readers of Krebs on Security will know that small and medium sized businesses and organizations have been the target of cybercrime gangs for several years now. What you might not know is...

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Filmmakers Charles and Walker Koppelman are working on a new movie project about cybercrime. We've met with Charles and the project seems really interesting. The project is still underway, and now...

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Android.Opfake is malware used to scam mobile device owners into paying a small fee for apps by sending out premium-rate SMS messages from Android devices. It has continued to grow and evolve into a...

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