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New fake antivirus spam hits Twitter

19

Apr

2012

What’s the story? A new wave of spam has hit the popular social network Twitter which pushes advertisements for a free and “proven” antivirus. The link is malicious and the antivirus is fake. So far over 500 Twitter accounts have clocked up over 4000 tweets of this spam message and that number is rising fast […]

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Fake Windows Media Player uses a variety of ad services to milk Android users – The G Data SecurityLabs discovered a new set of cheating apps with tricky ad strategies in Google Play, as a successor of the fake VLC player app

18

Apr

2012

The original Windows Media Player is one of the most popular media applications worldwide. It runs on Windows computers, Windows phones and, as a plug-in, under Mac OS X. Unfortunately, the Android platform is not yet supported and this is the point of attack used by intruders. They publish an app, which disguises as Windows […]

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Beware of deceptive in-app advertising

10

Apr

2012

I really like the new app by OMGPOP called Draw Something. I play this game with my friends possibly a little too much. Draw Something has attracted more than 50 million downloads, and was just acquired by Zynga for $200 million dollars. It was surprising the other day when I noticed an advertisement at the […]

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