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The Rise of the Ransomware – Police Virus Reloaded

04

Jul

2012

Some of you probably remember this article where I described the huge increase of attacks seen in some countries by malware that was posing as different law enforcement agencies. This kind of malware is called “Police Virus” due to this, and its main purpose (as usual with malware) is to steal money from the users. […]

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New type of Nigerian scam or just a spam from “FBI”

04

Jul

2012

From time to time, we see in our labs really funny emails pretending to be deadly serious. This time, I received one such email on my personal email address, and I couldn’t stop laughing after reading it full. And this, believe me, it was a challenge. Apparently, you see an empty email with only a […]

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Malicious App Sends Bogus Facebook Warnings

07

Jun

2012

Today, I received a couple of requests from my friends on Facebook. Each included the phrase “WARNING FROM FACEBOOK TEAM.“ The requests looked suspicious because they came from friends, and the Facebook team never sends such warnings. A little quick analysis found that those requests were actually sent from a fake application called hxxp://apps.facebook.com/secureverifyssdc/. Here […]

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