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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #2791 on: November 20, 2013, 01:36:54 PM »
There was a new update for the Tor bundle: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/new-tor-browser-bundles-firefox-17011esr-and-tor-02418-rc
This should not give you a false sense of security.
Tor seems vulnerable to identifiers for NSA targeting e.g. quantum cookie "“packet injection” attacks,
injecting  a 302 redirect to a FOXACID server, and other such methods of surveillance (ga.js &.o).

So some even go as far as to say: "Tor stinks", while it still upholds some form of anonymity.
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #2792 on: November 20, 2013, 06:52:33 PM »
Fallout from Nuclear Pack exploit kit highly toxic for Windows machines

http://blog.avast.com/2013/11/20/fallout-from-nuclear-pack-exploit-kit-highly-toxic-for-windows-machines/
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #2793 on: November 22, 2013, 03:05:53 PM »
i2Ninja malware doing the rounds.
This new financial malware has been discovered using the I2P darknet to send stolen banking credentials to its command and control servers.
Read: http://www.trusteer.com/blog/out-of-the-shadows-%E2%80%93-i2ninja-malware-exposed  (link article author = Etay Maor )

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« Reply #2794 on: November 24, 2013, 11:55:58 PM »
seems Google playstore have apps With malware   :-\

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/536c95792e8820bb3b41c56b8b9d32a44cddc48c037efa9a0c04264421f6abe5/analysis/1385333474/

htxps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bestfreeandroidwallpapers.wallpapermirandakerr&hl=en


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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #2795 on: November 25, 2013, 12:00:15 AM »
Hi Pondus,

That is bad, now that we are only supposed to install exclusively from there.
Again do not trust anything by sight alone, investigate.
Better safe than sorry, Pondus.
Thanks for the heads-up on this one!

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« Reply #2796 on: November 25, 2013, 12:41:11 AM »
Seems like Android is following Windows in searching for free wallpapers you invariably could find malware - the difference here is it is in the play store not just as a result of a search.
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #2797 on: November 25, 2013, 12:42:38 AM »
Hi Pondus,

That is bad, now that we are only supposed to install exclusively from there.
Again do not trust anything by sight alone, investigate.
Better safe than sorry, Pondus.
Thanks for the heads-up on this one!

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Polonus,

It's always good to get a head's up on this sort of thing.  Those in the know tend to have long memories like elephants, and seem to avoid potential pitfalls like this one, but I fear for those who do not make the daily effort to keep up with things, good as well as bad.

Not surprised at all by this news. 

Even if you centralise the program download location as Google has now done, expect malcreants to find their way in.  They do it everywhere else.  That's their job and that is what they get up every day for.  Like Anonymous says, "Expect Us".  Some things never change.

@ DavidR, good point.   ;D
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #2798 on: November 25, 2013, 03:34:26 PM »

We're making TOO MUCH CASH
 'generous' cybercrooks to slash their demands.
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« Reply #2799 on: November 25, 2013, 04:22:22 PM »
More like we're asking for to much in the way of extortion and people aren't prepared to pay.
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #2800 on: November 25, 2013, 06:29:19 PM »
Blackshades Rat Usage on the Rise Despite Author’s Alleged Arrest  (Symantec blog)

http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/blackshades-rat-usage-rise-despite-author-s-alleged-arrest
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #2801 on: November 29, 2013, 11:49:08 PM »
Botnets survival  spared as an important resource for official surveillance data, read->
http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/a-mercenary-approach-to-botnets/240164329  link author = Gunter Ollman

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #2802 on: November 30, 2013, 07:29:57 AM »
CryptoLocker uses email as main infection vector:  (see attached .jpg)  Source:  bleeping computer.com     Infected websites also a threat.

Full blog info here (including snipped .jpg below):  http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/cryptolocker-ransomware-information
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« Reply #2804 on: November 30, 2013, 07:11:06 PM »