Posts Tagged ‘malicious purposes’

LinkedIn Sues Cybercriminals Responsible for Creating Fake Accounts [Bloomberg]

Jan

2014

LinkedIn has filed a lawsuit against the cybercriminals responsible for creating fake accounts which they use for spam and other malicious purposes. The social media company doesnt know who they are, but that doesnt mean the suit is in vain. The complaint filed by the company has been obtained by Bloomberg. It shows that the […]

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Waledac Gets Cozy with Virut

Jan

2013

Recently, we blogged about the file-infector virus known as W32.Virut and the botnet’s return to distributing new payloads. In the blog, we estimated that the Virut botnet currently consists of 308,000 unique Virut clients active in a single day. It was also noted that Virut had been observed distributing payloads with the functionality to send out […]

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Beta Version of Spytool App for Android Steals SMS Messages

May

2012

During my investigation of mobile threats in the wild, I discovered a spytool, which is currently available on Google Play, that is actively being discussed on certain hacker forums. This tool’s beta version is available on the site since March 11. An estimated 500 – 1000 users have already downloaded the said spytool, which Trend […]

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