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Key Figure in Police Ransomware Activity Nabbed

13

Feb

2013

Ransomware is a nasty scam that infiltrates your computer and tricks you into thinking that you’ve done something wrong. Police ransomware in particular informs users that they need to pay their local police a fine.We have written detailed reports about these attacks in the past, including multiple blog posts as part of our investigations into […]

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Fraudulent e-Commerce Websites Exploit the Post-New Year’s Day Sales Drive

09

Jan

2013

As we welcome the New Year, we must be aware that the bad guys will use every opportunity to exploit events of a positive and negative nature. Yes, even the recent disastrous weather experienced on the east coast of the United States was exploited to try and obtain valuable information that could be used for identity […]

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All Carberp botnet organizers arrested

02

Jul

2012

We have been tracking the Carberp cybercrime group’s activity for three years now. Tracking started in 2009 with the first samples of the Carberp malcious software seen in the wild. By the beginning of 2010 the second wave of Carberp activity had forced out other banking malware families (Win32/Spy.Shiz, Win32/Hodprot) in Russia. We summarized the […]

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