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Unwanted Apps in Google Play Pose as Fake AV

11

May

2012

In recent years one of the most prevalent malware threats for PCs (and lately Mac users) is fake-antivirus software, which pretends to be a legitimate security program. Its real purpose is to charge victims a fee to remove a nonexistent threat. The same threat has now been ported to mobile devices. In some cases we […]

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17 Bad Mobile Apps Still Up, 700,000+ Downloads So Far

04

May

2012

We’ve reported previously that malicious apps were discovered in the official Android app store, which is now known as Google Play. While those reported apps were removed, more malicious apps have been seen in the official marketplace and appear to be still victimizing users. This is just one of the important reasons why we feel […]

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Beware of False E-Commerce Websites

27

Apr

2012

It is a very common habit of internet users to download the videos or unknown software from the reputed video sharing websites. There is nothing un-common in doing so, but there could be a chances of luring the users in the form of presenting advertisements to the types of interesting draw contests of false websites […]

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