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New Trojan horse for Android spreads with Angry Birds Rio Unlock

10

Jun

2011

Doctor Web-a leading Russian anti-virus vendor-warns users about a new dangerous malware family that target smart phones running Android-Android.Plankton. The malware built into Angry Birds Rio Unlock, which gives access to hidden levels of this popular game, sends information about the infected device to criminals and downloads other malicious programs.The beginning of June 2011 saw […]

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Fake anti-viruses for MAC, new 64-bit rootkits, and other “surprises” of May

09

Jun

2011

The emergence of the fake anti-virus best known as MacDefender may be considered the most important cyber-threat event in May. While fake anti-viruses for Windows have become commonplace, counterfeit anti-malware for Mac OS X is still a novelty, especially when on the scale of an epidemic. Yet the discovery of rootkits targeting 64-bit Windows systems […]

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Fake anti-virus cloaks itself to appear to be Microsoft Update

09

Jun

2011

We are seeing the criminals behind fake anti-virus continuing to customize their social engineering attacks to be more believable to users and presumably more successful. Last week I wrote about fake Firefox malware warnings leading users to rogue security software. This week they’ve started to imitate Microsoft Update. The page is nearly an exact replica […]

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New Trojan horse for Android spreads with Angry Birds Rio Unlock

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