Potentially Unwanted Applications

Magala falls into the category of Trojan Clickers that imitate a user click on a particular webpage, thus boosting advertisement click counts. It’s worth pointing out that Magala doesn’t actually affect the user, other than consuming some of the infected computer’s resources. The main victims are those paying for the advertising.

On 28 October, the cryptocurrency world saw the emergence of a new player, the Zcash (ZEC) cryptocurrency. Its developers have described it rather figuratively: “If Bitcoin is like HTTP for money, Zcash is HTTPS.” They continue by noting that “unlike Bitcoin, Zcash transactions can be shielded to hide the sender, the recipient and value of all transactions.”

This report aims to evaluate how widespread mobile threats are, and to alert the international IT security and law enforcement community to the problem of crime in the area of mobile communications.

Dubai today has become a global city and a business hub, same is going for threats and malware attacks, UAE is the most attacked country in the Middle East.

This is the fourth and final part of our series of blogposts about the World Cup and the IT threats associated with it.

This is one of those scenarios where the user looks for protection but only finds problems.  Sergio de los Santos, a friend of mine, has shared with me a link to a false App that pretends to be AdBlock Plus, the well-known and useful application that many users have in their web browsers. At the time

Brazilian cybercrime is based primarily on the spread of Trojan bankers. For some time now the country’s bad guys have been investing their efforts in new monetization schemes, the latest includes the use of adware.

Like many others, I took advantage of Amazon.com’s sale and ordered a Kindle Fire HD last week. When I got around to exploring the Amazon App Store, it didn’t take long before running into malware.

Various proactive antivirus protection tools are capable of hooking system functions in one way or another. Malicious code also uses algorithms of this type.

Google added an infection indicator on their search results page to help warn users that their system is infected.

It is clear that cybercriminals do not have any code of ethics. Consequently, even the most innocent are not exempt from a malicious attacker’s perspective, and are often used as a means to allow them to generate higher economic returns, in this case, through the abuse of clicks.

Various malware and riskware programs created for mobile platforms with premium rate SMS usage have been a huge problem for a very long time for users from countries like Russia, Ukraine or China. What about other countries?

The following statistics were compiled in April using data from computers running Kaspersky Lab products: 221 mln network attacks blocked,190 mln malicious programs detected, 86 mln heuristic verdicts registered.

Bad guys using Blackhat SEO techiniques are now targeting Mac users and distributing rogueware called Best Mac Antivirus and MACDefender

Kaspersky Lab recently discovered a new ongoing spam campaign on Twitter. A Twitter account is actively sending tweets to random people with links to a video. Here’s one of the messages: