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Android Ransomware Predictions Hold True

11

Sep

2013

Back in June we discovered a malicious Android application that was holding user’s Android phones for ransom. This discovery confirmed earlier predictions that ransomware would evolve and arise on new platforms, such as mobile devices.As part of our pre-emptive SMS spam domain identification, we have detected a recently-registered domain that is currently serving a new […]

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Facebook Used to Kidnap Girls in Indonesia

30

Oct

2012

As evidenced by its recent milestone of 1 billion users, Facebook is one of the fastest growing social networks in the world. It is expanding the quickest in countries like Indonesia, a country of 240 million where there are already 50 million Facebook users. However, many users in Indonesia are teenagers who don’t know how […]

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That’s Amore? No, That’s A-Malware

09

Oct

2012

If you want, you can choose to believe that the people behind some Malware made to look like an MP3 called “Delfin2.exe” did so in a ruse to bait fans of Andean techno-folklore music creator, Delfin Quishpe. You could also choose to believe that they just forgot to call it something other than a common […]

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