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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:39:45 +0000
The inevitable social media fallout when Turkey and the Netherlands fight. The post Hack Brief: High-Profile Twitter Accounts Overrun With Swastikas appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Axelle Apvrille| Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 08:21:55 -0700
In the part 1 of this blog, we saw that Android/Ztorg.AM!tr silently downloads a remote encrypted APK, then installs it and launches a method named c() in the n.a.c.q class. In this blog post, we’ll investigate what this does. This is the method c() of n.a.c.q: This prints "world," then waits for 200 seconds before starting a thread named n.a.c.a. I'll spare you a few hops, but among the first things we notice is that the sample uses the same string obfuscation routine, except this time it is not…
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Credit to Author: Axelle Apvrille| Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 08:20:51 -0700
Ztorg, also known as Qysly, is one of those big families of Android malware. It first appeared in April 2015, and now has over 25 variants, some of which are still active in 2017. Yet, there aren't many technical descriptions for it – except for the initial Ztorg.A sample – so I decided to have a look at one of the newer variants, Android/Ztorg.AM!tr, that we detected on January 20, 2017. The sample poses a "Cool Video Player" and its malicious activity was so well hidden I initially thought I had run into…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Justin Foster| Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 13:00:48 +0000
With the growing number of threats, technologies, and responsibilities, security teams have no shortage of challenges they face daily. Now more than ever, it is important that security providers offer tools that work with these teams instead of against them; solutions that allow for opportunities in place of constraints. This is why customers were directly…
Credit to Author: Steve Quane| Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 12:00:35 +0000
The month of March marks the one year anniversary of Trend Micro closing our acquisition of TippingPoint from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). In that past year, we made a commitment to continue to innovate the TippingPoint solution while at the same time solidly executing for our customers and seamlessly continuing business operations. I’m pleased to…
Credit to Author: Marvin the Robot| Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 10:52:57 +0000
It’s easy to neglect digital maintenance. Take our quiz to find out if you have the symptoms of digital cluttering.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Marvin the Robot| Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 10:00:27 +0000
Modern Android users have, on average, 66 apps installed on their devices. Most of these apps start working without users launching them.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 18:18:36 +0000
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| We explain what adware and ad fraud are and point out the differences by discussing the methods and the classification of the malware that is involved. Categories: Tags: ad fraudad supportedadvertisingadwarespoofingstackingstuffing |
The post Adware vs. ad fraud appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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