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Ransomware attacks are growing in popularity these days. French users were a recent target of an attack that impersonated the Gendarmerie nationale. A few months ago, Japanese users were also hit by ransomware in a one-click billing fraud scheme targeted for Android smartphones. Last year we documented two ransomware campaigns that targeted Russian users. One […]

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In the past we’ve reported about one-click billing fraud schemes starting to target smartphone users. The scheme, as its name suggests, tricks a victim into registering and paying for a certain service after being falsely led to a specific website. The past attack we saw involved a website wherein target victims were asked to pay […]

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The One-Click Billing fraud, a scheme known to target PC users in Japan, now appears to target smartphone users as well.The scheme, as its name suggests, tricks a victim into registering and paying for a certain service after being falsely led into a specific website. Instances of successful attacks have been increasing in Japan since […]

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