February 9, 2012 - Yesterday, we stumbled across this ad from an Android-related site:Clicking this led to a malicious Android Market. Note that this isn't the official Android Market, but a fraudulent (continue reading...) Read more
February 9, 2012 - Brod, a researcher on our Threat Research team has been tasked with tracking emerging Mac based threats. Microsoft Excel is one of the tools he uses to chart variants. From April to December 2011, there have been several (continue reading...) Read more
February 9, 2012 - We're sure that most of you have at least heard of SOPA. Major websites such as Wikipedia have blacked out sections of their content today to raise awareness.In some locations, Google has blacked out its (continue reading...) Read more
February 9, 2012 - There's breaking news coming out of Poland. Hackers, reportedly associated with Anonymous, have been attacking Polish government websites to protest this week's scheduled signing of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). (continue reading...) Read more
February 9, 2012 - Many of the sites that we blogged about on Monday are still offline after being targeted by DDoS attacks. Hackers have promised to continue until the 26th.According to Polskie Radio: "Over a thousand people (continue reading...) Read more
February 9, 2012 - Facebook is recently doing a decent job at keeping survey spam posts at bay (all things considered).So, what's an entrepreneurial Facebook spammer to do? Well, some have tweaked their master plan, and have expanded their use (continue reading...) Read more
February 9, 2012 - Amidst my usual adventure with Android malware analysis, I saw this snippet of code while skimming through a particular sample's class modules.Figure 1Late (continue reading...) Read more
February 9, 2012 - We've been seeing cases of malware that first debuted on other operating systems being ported over to Android. Here's another trojan that fits the bill.OpFake was first found on Symbian and Windows Mobile. In its (continue reading...) Read more
February 9, 2012 - Here's a clip from a US TV show called "Bones".In a recent episode, a computer virus crashes a computer. And sets it on fire. The virus got in via a fractal. Embedded on a bone (continue reading...) Read more
February 9, 2012 - Several weeks ago, we asked members of our community forums, and our blog readers to submit ideas for a new set of F-Secure Labs Laptop Stickers. Well, we finally find some time to pick the finalists. (continue reading...) Read more
February 9, 2012 - Breaking: a faction of Anonymous has released an MP3 recording of an FBI conference call which took place on January 17th.During the call, which is currently posted on YouTube, members of the USA's FBI can (continue reading...) Read more
February 9, 2012 - With a 2-minute video, BBC News program "Click" does a very decent job explaining to the laymen how banking trojans such as ZeuS attempt to avoid detection by antivirus software: (continue reading...) Read more
February 9, 2012 - Author Misha Glenny was interviewed by broadcast journalist Charlie Rose recently. The majority of discussion was based on Misha's current book, DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You.The interview is 20 minutes long, a provides an excellent summary (continue reading...) Read more
February 9, 2012 - There's only one day left to vote in our laptop sticker poll.Here's a screenshot of the front runners:Given the popularity of Mikko's (continue reading...) Read more
February 8, 2012 - An Android application package (APK) can include multiple modules; one or more of these modules may be an advertisement SDK. That's pretty normal nowadays, as many Android developers currently use such modules to compensate for providing their products (continue reading...) Read more
February 6, 2012 - For the fifth year now we are arranging a course on malware (malicious software) analysis in co-operation with Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. The first lecture is on January 18th by our Chief Research Officer, Mikko Hypponen. If (continue reading...) Read more
February 3, 2012 - Now here's something that you don't see everyday, a YouTube video in which a young woman advertises DDoS services, with a smile."Hello, Hackers."The video (continue reading...) Read more
February 2, 2012 - Today we've been reading through a 208 page European Commission report called: Special Eurobarometer 359, Attitudes on Data Protection and Electronic Identity in the European Union (PDF). One thing is very clear. European attitudes on digital privacy (continue reading...) Read more
February 1, 2012 - The 28th Chaos Communication Congress (28C3) is currently underway in Berlin and on Tuesday, researcher Karsten Nohl gave a presentation called: Defending mobile phones. If you have an hour, it's worth watching.Initial press reports (continue reading...) Read more
January 31, 2012 - It's almost the end of 2011. What with Christmas recently passed, and the New Year coming up, there's naturally a lot of well wishes and holiday greetings being messaged around. Looks like somebody's decided to join in (a (continue reading...) Read more