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A few days ago, a new malware named Android/Smspacem.A!tr appeared for Android users. This malware trojans a legitimate (but controversial) application named the Holy F***ing Bible. Its malicious behavior only appeared on May 21-22 and resulted in ch...

Some time ago, I bumped into a few Android applications which use Airpush. Airpush is an advertisement SDK developers can add to their application to generate some revenue: for every thousand ads displayed via their application, the developers gets...

Victories continue to roll in 2011. In April, a large Coreflood (circa 2002) botnet operation was dismantled by the FBI. Servers and domains controlled by this Coreflood gang were seized. This comes off the heels of Rustock's takedown in March, which...

The Fortinet development team, working closely with NSS Labs, released an update to the FortiGate firewall to block the split handshake attack technique on April 20. This fix permanently addresses the split handshake issue identified by NSS and enabl...

This month Fortinet's Derek Manky recognizes Zombie Awareness Month and then talks about a few of the most recent zombie botnets that have been taken off line.

As May is Zombie Awareness month, we thought we’d once again highlight the current dangers and activities of the zombies we follow daily at FortiGuard Labs. Of course, in this particular instance, we're talking about computer zombies: infected mach...