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Android SMS trojans: new platform, ‘old’ tricks

Denis Maslennikov (Kaspersky Lab)

August 2010 saw the appearance of the first piece of malware for the Android mobile platform. Denis Maslennikov examines three variants of the FakePlayer SMS trojan.

Case study: the Ibank trojan

Alisa Shevchenko sheds some light on the technology of online banking fraud with an indepth analysis of the Ibank trojan which targets a wide variety of Russian online banking technologies.

VB ‘securing your organization in the age of cybercrime’ Seminar

Helen Martin reports from the first VB Seminar in London.

Deelaed learning

Over a period of around three months, new virus writer hh86 produced a handful of viruses using some new techniques - then disappeared without a word. Peter Ferrie details her creations.

Vancouver expedition

The 20th VB conference drew to a close last month in the beautiful city of Vancouver. Helen Martin reports on the presentations, games, awards, birthday cakes, and the buzzword of the event: Stuxnet.

Anti-unpacker tricks – part fourteen

Last year, a series of articles described some tricks that might become common in the future, along with some countermeasures. In this final article of the series we look at anti-unpacking by anti-emulating.

Worldwide anti-botnet initiatives

‘Germany was the first country to launch a large-scale malware-cleaning project backed by the government.’ Sorin Mustaca, Avira

Exploit identification

In previous articles Mark Davis introduced exploit frameworks such as Fragus, Tornado, and others, and described how to analyse them using LAMP/WAMP servers. Here, he walks through a Tornado kit, start to finish, showing the process required to…

Letters

Letters to the editor on the relevance of spam feeds and the earning potential of cybercrime.

Wot no comparative?

VBSpam comparative results postponed.