Posts Tagged ‘ Trojan ’

Nasty Android Trojan Spotted in the Wild

December 30, 2010
Nasty Android Trojan Spotted in the Wild

Security firm Lookout warns that a new Trojan affecting Android devices has emerged in China. It’s being called “Geinimi” and it’s capable of compromising a “significant amount of personal data” harvested from a user’s phone, which is then sent to remo…

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Trojan Modifies Firefox to Store Passwords; Infiltrates Protected Storage Area

October 10, 2010
Trojan Modifies Firefox to Store Passwords; Infiltrates Protected Storage Area

In a recent blog post, Webroot warned of a Firefox Trojan that forces the browser to save all login credentials by default and subsequently uses the stolen information to create a new user account (username: Maestro) on the compromised machine. It t…

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Malware-infected Mainframe May Have Doomed Spanish Airliner

August 22, 2010
Malware-infected Mainframe May Have Doomed Spanish Airliner

Spanair flight number JK 5022, which crashed seconds after taking off from Madrid’s Barajas airport on August 20, 2008, may have been doomed  by a malware-infected mainframe responsible for identifying technical snags, it has now emerged. A pre…

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Android Gets Its First SMS Trojan

August 12, 2010
Android Gets Its First SMS Trojan

And thus it begins, the era of SMS viruses for Android. That’s according to security firm Kaspersky, which earlier this week warned that the first malicious program classified as a Trojan-SMS has been detected for smartphones built around Google’s Andr…

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