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American Airlines warns of scam emails

Jan

2012

American Airlines has posted online several examples of scam emails, claiming to be from the airline in an effort to help protect their customers from falling victim to the scam.The phishing attack which has been active as recently as November 2011 was designed to con American Airlines customers into surrendering their personal information and passwords.One […]

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Impostor Apps in the Android Market

Dec

2011

There seems to be a growing practice where malware authors boldly use similar package names and icons of popular apps for their malware, and then publish this malware on the official Android Market. Unsuspecting users might download this malware under the false pretense that they are getting the free/lite version of a legit app. Similar […]

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Easy Money: Program:Win32/Pameseg (part 2)

Nov

2011

In the previous post, we gave an introduction to how file partnership programs work and how they make money off unsuspecting users by charging them for installing software that is actually free. In this post, we’ll walk you through a sample of these “paid archives”. The following “paid archive” simulates the appearance of the Adobe […]

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