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Airpush exploited to spread Trojans onto Android devices

13

Mar

2013

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users that the Airpush Mobile Ad network is often being exploited to spread Android.SmsSend Trojans. Unfortunately, messages displayed by Airpush can confuse users into downloading malware. Doctor Web has been receiving complaints regarding false positives by Dr.Web for Android; the anti-virus had been detecting Android.SmsSend.315.origin in the application […]

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Waledac Gets Cozy with Virut

15

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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How to disable advertisers tracking in iOS 6

24

Oct

2012

Apple released in September 2012 the new iOS 6 together with the iPhone 5. We’ve seen quite a lot of advertisements about how good and great the iOS 6 is. No doubt, it is good, but not all new ”things” were advertised. For example, Apple didn’t say a word about the new feature called Identifier […]

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