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Malware That Pretends To Be Google

06

Jul

2012

Malware authors (AKA the criminals or the bad guys), use many advanced techniques to hide their activities. From encoding, to encrypting, to auto-generated random domains, conditional redirections and many other interesting methods.In the middle of all their advanced options, they also use simple techniques to confuse the end user to think that a malicious domain […]

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Boxer SMS Scam Poses as Firefox for Android

03

Jul

2012

One of our security researchers in the AV Labs spotted an Android application posing as the popular Web browser Firefox and is hosted on several Russian websites (Note that these sites are still up and running as of this writing). The Android application files (.APK) users can download from them not only vary in file […]

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Fake Twitter Confirmation Email Points to Blackhole Exploit

13

Jun

2012

Yesterday, we wrote about the return of Amazon spam, and how criminals behind this campaign led users to have their software exploited via the Blackhole exploit kit, especially if they’re not properly patched. At the end of that entry, we included a list of campaigns that use popular brand names that criminals bank on to […]

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