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Fake Application Found on Amazon Appstore for Android

Jul

2013

Keeping an app store free of malicious applications can be a hard task as we have discussed in our previous blogs. Fake or misleading applications, in particular, are often the hardest to spot because it is not always obvious whether they do what they claim to do.Our automated systems flagged an egregious example of a […]

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Flash-Based Fake Antivirus Software: Windows Risk Minimizer

Mar

2012

Fake antivirus software or "scareware" is nothing new, but these applications continue to get more sophisticated. We recently discovered a relatively new fake antivirus application called Windows Risk Minimizer. The fake antivirus software was promoted through spam sent from a popular webmail service. This is slightly unusual as normally fake antivirus infections arrive through drive-by […]

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