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Doctor Web-a leading Russian anti-virus vendor-warns users about a new dangerous malware family that target smart phones running Android-Android.Plankton. The malware built into Angry Birds Rio Unlock, which gives access to hidden levels of this popular game, sends information about the infected device to criminals and downloads other malicious programs.The beginning of June 2011 saw […]

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A while back a malicious program called DroidDream was found on the Google Marketplace. The thing about DroidDream is that it exploited a vulnerability that gave it root access. Now contrast how Google treats security software. Security applications are not allowed to have root access. The truth is that the most popular mobile platforms (and […]

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In the last few days experts at Kaspersky Lab have detected new samples of the malicious program MAX++ (aka ZeroAccess). This Trojan first achieved notoriety for using advanced rootkit technology to hide its presence in a system. Back then, MAX++ only worked on x86 platforms; now it is capable of functioning on x64 systems! Computers […]

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