Security Response Blogs

OSX.Flashback – How to Turn Your Botnet into $$$

Symantec Security Response @ Wed, 16 May 2012 17:58:38
Further analysis of the OSX.Flashback botnet has shed more light on how profitable such a botnet  [More ...]

Thieves in the Temple: Android.Opfake Makes Another Run

Irfan Asrar @ Wed, 16 May 2012 17:35:36
The Opfake gang can be called many things but “lazy” isn't one of them. In the  [More ...]

Rise of .in URLs in Spam

Eric Park @ Mon, 14 May 2012 19:19:03
.node-content-pad td {padding:2px 4px !important;}Symantec has observed an increase in spam messages containing URLs using  [More ...]

Save the Date: ISTR 17 Twitter Chat

Symantec Security Response @ Wed, 9 May 2012 19:26:30
Join Symantec security experts on Twitter (using the #ISTR hashtag) on Tuesday, May 15, at 10  [More ...]

Microsoft Patch Tuesday - May 2012

Candid Wueest @ Tue, 8 May 2012 18:14:56
Hello, welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch release. This is a larger month—the  [More ...]

Lizamoon Mass SQL-Injection: Tried and Tested Formula

Stephen Doherty @ Mon, 7 May 2012 23:30:20
Analysis: Kevin Savage read more  [More ...]

OSX.FlashBack.K – An Overview and its Inner Workings

Karthik Selvaraj @ Mon, 7 May 2012 21:31:08
In our previous blogs, [1], [2], [3], and [More ...]

Targeted Attacks Using Confusion (CVE-2012-0779)

Symantec Security Response @ Sat, 5 May 2012 00:24:39
Adobe today issued a security bulletin for a vulnerability in Flash Player, which is currently being  [More ...]

Website Injection-Campaign Used in Conjunction with an Android Trojan

Irfan Asrar @ Thu, 3 May 2012 14:26:45
Back in December of 2011, Symantec identified the first case of an Android threat that was  [More ...]

Phishers Offer Fake Storage Upgrades

Mathew Maniyara @ Wed, 2 May 2012 21:25:04
Co-Author: Ayub Khan read more  [More ...]