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11,000 users fell into a WhatsApp scam

29

Jul

2013

A young Spanish hacker developed a fictive application, which offered users to spy on private messages of their WhatsApp friends. Thousands users went into the site, which required them to register their mobile number. Whoever typed the number fell into a huge fraud by automatically being assigned to an advertisements site that sends ads for […]

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Fake Application Found on Amazon Appstore for Android

02

Jul

2013

Keeping an app store free of malicious applications can be a hard task as we have discussed in our previous blogs. Fake or misleading applications, in particular, are often the hardest to spot because it is not always obvious whether they do what they claim to do.Our automated systems flagged an egregious example of a […]

Category General Written by Symantec Security Response Blog 0 Comments

Ad injection and you – how adware gets on your computer

21

Jun

2013

Are advertisements showing up in your browser (no matter whether you use Internet Explorer, Firefox or Chrome) on sites that you’ve never seen ads on before; or, do the ads seem different from what you’ve seen before? Your system might be affected by adware that injects advertisements into sites as you browse, such as Adware:Win32/InfoAtoms and […]

Category General Written by Microsoft Malware Protection Center 0 Comments

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