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Researchers at FireEye pulled back the layers from an attack campaign based on malware looking to dodge analysis by counting mouse clicks to see if it is in a sandbox.
Google removed more than 200 apps from Google Play after Symantec researchers identified a large one-click fraud scam targeting Japanese users.
Fearing potential data theft after the arrest of a contractor, the agency has shutdown the NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS).
Researchers at AlienVault share research about the Sykipot campaign.
Maintaining high patch levels is step one to blocking the TeamSpy crew, which used old Java and Adobe Reader vulnerabilities as part of their plan to compromise computers.
Researchers uncovered a new variant of Android malware targeting banking customers in Italy and Thailand, according to McAfee researchers.
Though two Web servers were compromised, there is no evidence the site was used to serve malware.
For the second time in a month, the National Journal has been spotted serving users with malware, according to security researchers. It has since been cleaned.
Researchers peeled back more layers of the MiniDuke malware campaign.
A recently-discovered sample of the MiniDuke has been traced back to 2011, indicating its cyber-espionage efforts are older than researchers previously thought.

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Anti-virus products scan for malware in two ways. They look for sequences of bits that are found in programs that are known to be “evil” (but which are not commonly found in “good” programs)...