Security Response Blogs

Revamped Fake Android Market for SMS Fraud

Joji Hamada @ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:48:23
We have continued monitoring the massive campaign involving SMS Fraud on the mobile platform for a  [More ...]

Is Waledac Spam Dirtying the Russian 2012 Elections?

Symantec Security Response @ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:50:09
Recently there have been several reports about the re-emergence of a botnet variant (Kelihos), which Symantec  [More ...]

New Targeted Attack Using Office Exploit Found In The Wild

Joji Hamada @ Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:14:29
Contribution: Takayoshi Nakayama read more  [More ...]

Infostealer.Offsupload: 20,000+ Archives Containing Stolen Data Uploaded to Third Party File-Sharing Site

Stephen Doherty @ Thu, 9 Feb 2012 01:39:09
Upwards of 20,000 stolen archives have been uploaded to a third party file-sharing site from hosts  [More ...]

Android.Bmaster: A Million-Dollar Mobile Botnet

Cathal Mullaney @ Wed, 8 Feb 2012 21:14:37
Thanks to Eric Chien for his assistance with this research. Introduction read more  [More ...]

Russian Spammers Eye World Content Show

Samir Patil @ Wed, 8 Feb 2012 17:17:38
Thanks to Anand Muralidharan for their assistance with this research. Televison channels across the world are  [More ...]

Web Attack Ahead of Tax Season

Samir Patil @ Tue, 7 Feb 2012 22:50:40
At 3 AM, on February 6, 2012, Symantec Security Response observed spam carrying malicious links which  [More ...]

Purchases From This Super Bowl Sale Will Not Take You Anywhere

Samir Patil @ Sat, 4 Feb 2012 20:15:18
You may not need pills to watch the super bowl but spammers feel that this definitely   [More ...]

Server-side Polymorphic Android Applications

Symantec Security Response @ Wed, 1 Feb 2012 23:53:57
For quite some time, we have observed the technique of server-side polymorphism being used to infect  [More ...]

Phony ICC Promotion Award

Mayur Kulkarni @ Wed, 1 Feb 2012 01:13:10
Nothing can be more enticing than to be chosen for some free goodies—be it mementos, a  [More ...]