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Not the Mobile Antivirus You Were Looking For

Jun

2013

While browsing Malaysiakini (a popular Malaysian website) on an Android phone, one of our analysts spotted this advertisement: Clicking on the ad led to an external site displaying the following: Looks reminiscent of the kind of text we’ve seen for years on webpages pushing rogues for Windows systems (and sometimes Mac). Clicking on the “Download […]

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Escrow Scams Searching New Avenues

May

2013

People dream big when buying expensive items like a car or a property. When those dreams are seen with very affordable price tags it certainly attracts everybody’s interest. There are lots of websites available that allow people to post free classified advertisements online and one of the biggest categories is that of used cars. This […]

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Twenty eight apps on Google Play spread Trojans

Apr

2013

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users that twenty-eight applications incorporating a malicious adware module that can download Trojans to Android devices have been discovered on Google Play. The total number of installations of these programs has reached several million. Advertising in applications for Android has long been successfully used by various developers to […]

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