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2011 in Review: Mobile Malware

03

Jan

2012

2011 was a banner year for the Android operating system – as well as for Android malware. The increasing number of Android users made it profitable for attackers to go after them in full force, as we’ve been saying all year long.Where are the threats coming from?Many of these threats arrive via third-party app stores, […]

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Angry birds scam emails catapult into inboxes worldwide

29

Dec

2011

What did we do before Angry Birds? (Halo, Tetris and Rubik’s cube I guess). Angry Birds has become the benchmark by which any serious operating system is now judged (“no it doesn’t support email but Angry Birds will work on it”). This sort of popularity is guaranteed to make anything a useful vehicle for spam, […]

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Money from the cloud

17

Nov

2011

Not so long ago we wrote about cybercriminals using infected computers to generate virtual money via Bitcoin. A couple of days ago we discovered a malicious program called Trojan-Downloader.Win32.MQL5Miner.a which also uses the resources of infected computers, but this time to make money in MQL5 Cloud Network, a distributed computing network. The MQL5 Cloud Network […]

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