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Feb
2013

Users of inexpensive Android smartphones typically look for ways to accelerate their devices, for example, by freeing up memory. Demand for software that makes smartphones work a little faster creates supply, some of which happens to be malicious. In addition to legitimate applications, apps that only pretend to clean up the system have appeared on […]

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Here are the threats that the AVG Web Threats Research group expects to see in the coming New Year. 1. Java will remain the top exploited software. With over a billion machines running Java it’s a big target and extensively used by the most popular exploit kits today. 2. Mobile malware will grow. Mobile devices […]

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The recent discovery of an Android SMS spam botnet by Cloudmark, which is detected by Symantec as Android.Pikspam, has gained media attention. While delivering spam by botnets is nothing new, mobile technology has opened up new attack vectors to cybercriminals who are using the proven attack techniques of social engineering and spam with success on […]

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