In an earlier blog post about DNS hijacks, we briefly touched on the hosts file. The hosts file is like your…
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Just For Men website serves malware
The website for Just For Men, a company that sells various products for men as its name implies, was serving malware…
A week in security (Sep 04 – Sep 10)
Last week, we debuted our first-ever Mobile Menace Monday post where we talked about a fake Pokémon Go app, which turned…
Shakti Trojan: Technical Analysis
Recently, we took a look at the interesting Trojan found by Bleeping Computer. Our small investigation on its background and possible…
Shakti Trojan: Document Thief
While some ransomware (i.e. Chimera) give bogus threats about stealing and releasing private files, there are other malware families that in fact…
Malware uses Google Talk to make malicious phone calls
We found a new piece of mobile malware, Android/Trojan.Pawost, that’s using Google Talk to make malicious calls. As soon as the…
Android Trojan FakeApp masquerading as legitimate
A variant of Android/Trojan.FakeApp is stealing the identities of popular applications (apps) such as TrueCaller and Torque Pro. As soon as…
Trojan clicker’s gaze cast upon Google Play store
We’ve discovered a Trojan clicker on the Google Play store doing far more than advertised. The app name in Turkish is “Mayis Guzel Aydir”,…
Trojan.DNSChanger circumvents Powershell restrictions
In recent variants of the infamous DNS-changer adware we have found that the coders use a particularly interesting method to bypass…
Skype Hacking Tool: A Sting in the Tail
More often than not, when digging around the more dubious corners of the web “Skype hacking tool” means “If you install…