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Inside Adobe Reader Zero-Day Exploit CVE 2011-2462
Recently a critical vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Reader X and Adobe Acrobat X Versions 10.1.1...ZeroAccess Rootkit Launched by Signed Installers
Digital certificates and certificate authorities have been much in the news recently. Attacks–such as those used by...French Magazine Suffers Web Hack, Firebombing
To celebrate the recent victory of the Tunisian Islamist party, the French satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo” published...Android Malware Spreads Through QR Code
Last week, there was quite a buzz in the mobile-malware researchers community about a new Android malware....Satanbot Employs VBScript to Create Botnet
Malware is on the rise. At the beginning of 2008, our malware collection had 10 million samples....The Day of the Golden Jackal – The Next Tale in the Stuxnet Files: Duqu Updated
Stuxnet was possibly the most complex attack of this decade, and we expected that similar attacks would...No Winners at QR Code Roulette
Last year a friend had a bright idea for a party game that involved a series of...Rooting Exploit for Android Works Silently
In our last blog about Android malware, we discussed the expanding threat landscape for Android malware. Recently,...Spitmo vs Zitmo: Banking Trojans Target Android
SpyEye and Zeus are probably the most prevalent and active Trojan “banker” families seen in the wild....Why Does My Car Have Its Own Smartphone?
You would be surprised at the number of places you can find a GSM SIM card. Outside of...Dissecting Zeus for Android (or Is It Just SMS Spyware?)
Zeus, also known as ZBot, is one of best-known malware in the industry. The main purpose of...Responses to Cybercrime in Japan and France
This week the Sorbonne University and the French Department of Justice hosted a meeting, the World and...
