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New app kills the world’s scariest Android malware for free

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Jun

2014

Earlier this month, reports began trickling out about some of the scariest Android malware the world has ever seen. Dubbed Simplocker, the malicious software holds an Android smartphone or tablet hostage by encrypting all of the device’s photo, videos and documents. If the owner wishes to decrypt his or her data, a ransom is demanded. […]

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U.S. disrupts major hacking, extortion ring; Russian charged

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Jun

2014

By Joseph Menn, Jim Finkle and Aruna Viswanatha (Reuters) – A U.S.-led international operation disrupted a crime ring that infected hundreds of thousands of PCs around the globe with malicious software used for stealing banking credentials and extorting computer owners, the Justice Department said on Monday. Authorities in nearly a dozen countries worked with private […]

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Accused Russian hacker claimed authorship of ‘Zeus’ malware: FBI

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Jun

2014

By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A Russian man charged by U.S. authorities on Monday with controlling a hacking gang that locked up hundreds of thousands of computers to steal banking credentials and commit cyber extortion claimed in online chats to have written one of the most effective pieces of malicious software ever detected, […]

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