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Vine: Spammers Find a New Home on Twitter’s Video Sharing Service

Jun

2013

In late January of this year, Twitter released Vine, a social video-sharing service that it acquired in late 2012. Initially launched on iOS, Vine has similar characteristics to Twitter as videos are intentionally short (users are only allowed six seconds) and to the point. Earlier this month, an Android version of Vine was released and […]

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Trojan.Hosts malware infects eight thousand computers every day

Mar

2013

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users about the growing number of compromised websites from which Trojan.Hosts malware is being downloaded onto computers. In early 2013 the threat spread at almost epidemic magnitude. The outbreak remained at its peak in January and mid-February when as many as 9,500 computer infections were being registered every […]

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Police Ransomware: How to Get Your Malware Noticed

Sep

2012

Recently, I talked at the VB2012 conference in Dallas about one of the recent developments in today’s threat landscape: the increasing prevalence of police ransomware. Earlier, Trend Micro published a white paper discussing this threat, titled The “Police Trojan”.The idea behind ransomware is relatively simple: the cybercriminals block the user from accessing their own computer. […]

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