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Android Adware abusing permissions, Collecting more than they need
So you just bought a new Android-based smartphone, what comes next? What else but the most exciting part downloading the right apps to boost its functionality. Android gives you the freedom to personalize your device, which has made it attractive to those who want their smartphones to be as uniqu...
Sharp rise in Android Malwares in Third Quarter of 2012
Mobile industry watchers have long known that Android is under attack. The number of high risk and dangerous apps targeting Android users jumped from 30,000 in June to 175,000 in September, Trend Micro said in its third quarter security roundup. While some apps are clearly criminal - such as thos...
Report: 'Aggressive Adware' More Prevalent Among Android Malware
A new report from Trend Micro showed a 483 percent jump in malware — including “aggressive adware” that harvests person data without permission using legitimate ad networks. It’s no surprise that the open nature of the Android platform makes it a magnet for malware, but the type of malware becomi...
Fake Bad Piggies Game hijack Google Chrome browser
Rovio's latest game, Bad Piggies, is now available via Google Play and the App Store, and as a PC and Mac download, but it has not yet made its way to the Chrome Web Store. These pigs can indeed fly - "Bad Piggies," the spinoff to the monster hit game "Angry Birds," set a new record by soaring to...
Fake Flash Player, Laden with Malware, Making Rounds
Scammers have already begun to take advantage of Adobe’s recent decision to remove its Flash Player from Android’s Google Play marketplace. Last week’s removal has prompted scammers to start promoting fake versions of the software to unsuspecting smartphone owners. While researching the scamware,...
New Ice IX Variant Steals Information From Facebook Users
A new iteration of the Ice IX malware has been spotted attacking Facebook users, according to researchers at Trusteer, who claim that now the malware is trying to swindle unsuspecting users out of sensitive information like credit card numbers and addresses. After launching a web injection, the...
Facebook Warns Users About Timeline Adware
Facebook issued a video warning to its hundreds of millions of users on Thursday about the dangers of adware programs that lure users with promises of special features. In a video message from the Facebook Security group, the company said that a growing number of companies are fooling Facebook...
Nmap 5.61TEST4 released with Web Spidering Feature !
Nmap 5.61TEST4 released with Web Spidering Feature ! Nmap release today an interesting version nmap 5.61TEST4 with number of interesting features. Also, to improve the user experience, the Windows installer nowinstalls various browser toolbars, search engine redirectors, andassociated adware. a...
Research: Botnets, the Most Prevalent Threat in the Enterprise
Botnets are the most significant source of malicious Web traffic for enterprises on the Internet, according to new research from ZScaler’s ThreatLabz. Over the past 30 days, botnets have accounted for nearly 80 percent of the security blocks within ZScaler’s network. In a distant second place amo...
Cnet Apologizes for Nmap Adware Bundling
Officials at Cnet’s Download.com site have issued a statement apologizing for bundling the popular open source Nmap security audit application with adware that changed users’ search engine and home page to Microsoft properties. Fyodor, the author of Nmap, raised the issue earlier this week, sayin...
Analysis Shows DroidDream Trojan Designed for Future Monetization
A detailed analysis of the DroidDream Trojan that was found in dozens of apps in the Android Market this week shows that the malware has a modular construction that likely was designed to give attackers the ability to monetize infected devices through installations of adware or spyware. The Troja...
VirIT eXplorer Lite DLL Hijacking Exploit (tg-scan.dll)
Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits ======================================================= VirIT eXplorer Lite DLL Hijacking Exploit tg-scan.dll ======================================================= / VirIT eXplorer Lite DLL Hijacking Exploit tg-scan.dll Author : anT!-Tr0J4...
SMB Remote Disk Scanning for Executable Files
Malware is a software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner's informed consent. It is a general name for a variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying programs like Viruses, worms, Adware, Trojans, and spyware that exploit unprotected clients, using network...
Update Protection against Trojan.Sasfis
Malware is a software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner's informed consent. It is a general name for a variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying programs like Viruses, worms, Adware, Trojans, and spyware that exploit unprotected clients, using network...
Researchers See Threats in 'Typhoid' Adware
There’s a potential threat lurking in your internet café, say University of Calgary computer science researchers. It’s called Typhoid adware and works in similar fashion to Typhoid Mary, the first identified healthy carrier of typhoid fever who spread the disease to dozens of people in the New Yo...
Facebook Plagued By Sexiest Video Ruse
A huge attack by a rogue Facebook application last weekend infected users’ PCs with popup-spewing adware, said a researcher. Read the full article. Computerworld...
Virus: Win32.Pate.A
Malware is a software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner's informed consent. It is a general name for a variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying programs like Viruses, worms, Adware, Trojans, and spyware that exploit unprotected clients, using network...
Facebook Now Installing Undesired Adware
Already under fire for taking liberties with users’ privacy, Facebook was outted on Thursday as a distributor of unwanted applications, some of which install adware or are added to user profiles without permission. Read the full article. The Register...
Mozilla Admits Malware Sneaked into Firefox Add-ons
Mozilla says a pair of malicious Firefox add-ons slipped by its security checks and infected approximately 4,600 Windows computers over the last five months. The browser add-ons, described my Mozilla as “experimental,” contained a Trojan horse that executed when Firefox started and infected the...