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Webinar: Making Life Difficult for Malware
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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Java Drive-by Generator
Ran across a quite interesting infection today. I visited a site that prompted me a security warning about a "Microsoft" application from an unknown publisher. The site is actually pretending to be a...
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Pirate Bay to Anonymous: Call Your Mom!
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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Recommended Listening: Danger In The Download
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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Download: Mobile Threat Report, Q1 2012
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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What's wrong with marketing software?
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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Repost: Webinar: Making Life Difficult for Malware
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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ZeuS Ransomware Feature: win_unlock
Earlier today, while doing our daily data mining, we came across a new variant of ZeuS 2.x. It includes a new backdoor command called: win_unlock. Very interesting, turns out this slightly modified...
View ArticleVideo: Angry Birds Space Trojan & Drive-by Android
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 the...
View ArticleAusCERT Presentation: The Enemy
Mikko was a featured speaker last week at AusCERT2012.You can listen to (or download) audio of his presentation from Risky Business.And then once you have the audio, you can view Mikko's slides via...
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Flame-bait Questions
There are many ongoing discussions about "Flame" right now — an espionage tool, information was disclosed about it on Monday.There are plenty of questions from customers, and also from members of the...
View ArticleZeitgeist 2012: Mikko Q&A
Mikko took part in Google's Zeitgeist 2012 earlier this week in London.Wired magazine editor David Rowan's Q&A: Beyond Today – Mikko Hypponen. On 24/05/12 At 04:03 PM
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Case Flame
Flame (aka Flame aka Skywiper) is a massive, complex piece of malware, used for information gathering and espionage.The malware is most likely created by a Western intelligence agency or military. It...
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Targeted Attack: London 2012 Olympics
We've come across a malicious Olympic themed PDF earlier this morning while data mining our back end for documents which drop executables (those are never a good thing, unsurprisingly).The PDF...
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NYT: Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran
This:From the New York Times:"…an element of the program accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 because of a programming error that allowed it to escape Irans Natanz plant and sent it...
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Tool: DNS Check #DNSChanger
An Estonian company called Rove Digital was busted last November. Why? Because it was a front for the ad-fraud DNSChanger botnet. And ever since November, the USA's FBI has been responsible for the...
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Is a new Zsone Under Development? #Android
Android malware news: a year after Zsone's discovery, we've come across a new variant. Or at least a sample that causes us to ask, is a new variant under development? This new Zsone uses a native...
View ArticleOn Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame
A couple of days ago, I received an e-mail from Iran. It was sent by an analyst from the Iranian Computer Emergency Response Team, and it was informing me about a piece of malware their team had found...
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Microsoft Update and The Nightmare Scenario
About 900 million Windows computers get their updates from Microsoft Update. In addition to the DNS root servers, this update system has always been considered one of the weak points of the net....
View ArticleA Pandora's Box We Will Regret Opening
If somebody would have told me five years ago that by 2012 it would be commonplace for countries to launch cyberattacks against each other, I would not have believed it. If somebody would have told me...
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