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Voice changer or voice charger?
This week, the AVG Mobilation™ research team found a new instance of malware named ‘Voice Changer’ in the Android market. Fortunately, after our Security research team reported this to Google. They suspended the app for violating the Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement. The developer’s page in the Android market looks like the following: The [...]
AVG Threat Report Q4 2011
Every quarter AVG publish our Quarterly Threat Report, an analysis and overview of the trending and emerging web threats that our Threat Labs Team have been dealing with over the last quarter. The data for the report is collected by AVG’s Threat Labs from the AVG Community Protection Network. It is an online neighborhood watch, [...]
Threat from 16bit executable
Malware writers have got a new way to keep their babies safe. Recently we found a malware in 16bit NE file format and it runs smoothly in modern 32bit OS without detection even by the HIPS. Detections As far as we know, the sample has been in public view for 4 days(since 2012.1.16). But [...]
Fake it till you make it: Mobile Update Week 4
Fake Android Markets We have seen recently the spread of fake Android official market and website. The fake android markets usually contain many (if not all of the them) malicious applications which can target the victim in the two places where it hurts the most – namely, money and privacy. Those are malicious versions of [...]
AVG Web threat weekly update: Week 3
1. Just in time for Tax Season Starting today we began receiving emails from INTUIT at a bankofamerica.com email address (it’s spoofed). These emails notify the recipient of a problem between the IRS and Social Security and ask him to “use the following link” to review the information. The link leads to a Blackhole Exploit [...]
AVG Mobile Threat Update: Week 3
For 2012 our AVG Mobilation™ team will put together weekly reports on the latest threats to Android mobile devices. The reports are written by one of our in house experts called Elad Shapira, a short bio on him will be up in the near future. This week, the AVG Mobilation research team found a new [...]
Tablet thieves are more likely to use the data held on devices
With countless smartphones, tablets and other gadgets having appeared under Christmas trees, now is a good time for their new owners to think about what happens if they were to lose their new gadgets and how to protect the data they store on their devices. AVG’s latest research* called Lost in Transit gives some helpful [...]
AVG Web threat weekly update – Week 2
1. Is FakeAV Dead? No sooner did the world’s Internet users get the message five or so years ago that they should be running an anti-virus product on their PCs than the dark side jumped in to sell fake products that look and act like real security products. For the past five or so years, [...]
What threats will Web users face in 2012?
The AVG threat research lab expects no radically new web threats in 2012, but rather refinements of existing scams and malicious techniques. We expect business-as-usual for the dark side, although there seems to be some small successes in fighting the bot nets that distribute vast amounts of spam (including that containing malcode.) In 2011, Microsoft [...]
Murder retrial ordered after court records destroyed by virus
A convicted murderer has had his appeal for a retrial granted after the record of his trial, stored by the court stenographer, was apparently destroyed by a malware infection. The convicted party, Randy Chaviano, 26, appealed against his 2009 conviction in a Florida court for shooting Charles Acosta during an alleged drug deal and when [...]
FBI warns of new Zeus-based malware phishing scam
What’s the story? The FBI last week issued warning of a new phishing scam known as “Gameover”. Should the malware gain access to your PC, it can steal usernames, passwords and even circumvent user authentication on banking web pages. The FBI said it has seen an increase in the use of Gameover, which is an [...]
American Airlines warns of scam emails
American Airlines has posted online several examples of scam emails, claiming to be from the airline in an effort to help protect their customers from falling victim to the scam. The phishing attack which has been active as recently as November 2011 was designed to con American Airlines customers into surrendering their personal information and [...]
jQuery powered malware
We have already written numerous times about the fact that social networks can be used by cyber criminals to harm their users. This technique we have spotted on the twitter network is not new, but it is interesting nonetheless. Its first form uses a callback function to the Twitter API, which makes it hard to discover [...]
Beware of downloading malware in zip attachments from spam emails – weekly threat update
1. Zeus/Zbot/Spybot spam messages Every week we talk about the latest spam run that is out there luring users to websites that use the Blackhole exploit kit to install various pieces of malware on their PCs. Normally, users are tricked through a malicious spam emails that contains a link that when followed will eventually infect [...]
New zero-day vulnerabilities discovered in Flash Player
What has been found? Two new vulnerabilities in Adobe’s ubiquitous Flash Player have been discovered and allegedly can be used to an arbitrary code execution remotely. Essentially these vulnerabilities could allow someone to remotely seize control of a PC without the consent of the owner. Who discovered these exploits? The exploits were discovered [...]
Hospital turns away patients after network is infected
What happened? Last week patients at the Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville Georgia had to be turned away as an “unidentified malware” caused havoc with the hospitals internal network. The problem was so severe that hospital workers were forced to return to using paper documentation for existing patients and was forced to divert all non-emergency [...]
‘Duqu’ zero-day Windows flaw patched this week
What has been fixed? In the last Patch Tuesday of the year, Microsoft has released a major Windows patch which has fixed over 20 vulnerabilities in the operating system. Among the changes, seven tackle Windows flaws, five address problems in Microsoft Office and one relates to Windows Media Player. Microsoft labeled three of the Windows [...]
AVG Web threat weekly update – Week 50
1. “YouTube Premium plugin” scams spreading on Facebook On the Facebook/YouTube scam front this week we came across phony posts that led to the usual survey sites, but also a new and potentially malicious YouTube Premium plugin (for Firefox/Chrome). The video offered is of an uncommonly well endowed Italian model and TV hostess, Marika Fruscio, [...]
Beware: take more care of mobile devices during the holiday season
At AVG, we don’t just concern ourselves with internet safety. We also keep a close eye on offline habits that may put our users’ data in jeopardy. As part of our ongoing research into consumer safety, we recently carried out our Lost In Transit study; a survey into when, where and how the average person [...]
AVG Web threat weekly update – Week 48
1. Facebook survey scams – Ashton Kutcher and fake imgur site The Facebook survey scam pages this week play off the usual celebrity gossip themes. One we’ve seen frequently is the announcement several weeks ago of Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher’s divorce, with all the lurid details, And, of course the standard bait, such as [...]
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