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Latest Android Malware Records Conversations

10

Aug

2011

Due to the growing popularity of smartphones running the Android OS, the smartphone market is seeing immense growth. Whenever a product attracts attention in a market, that item will be targeted by attackers making use of its popularity as an attack vector. We expect the threat landscape for Android malware will grow considerably in the […]

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Busting a Big Malvertising / Fake-AV Attack

26

Jul

2011

Last week, I noticed an odd-looking URL in the WebPulse logs, so I plugged it into my test browser. I was rather surprised to see a fake AV attack “scanner” page pop up. Not because these kinds of attacks are rare (they aren’t; they’re one of the most common attack forms), but rather because it’s […]

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A direct message from Twitter Administration. Can you tell if it’s legitimate or not?

22

Jul

2011

For a long time we’ve seen spammers, phishers and malware authors concealing their advertising pitches, scams and malicious payloads by pretending to be a message from a social network, whether it claims to originate from Facebook, Twitter or even MySpace. Here’s one of the latest we caught today, claiming to come from Twitter. Twitter-er! You […]

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