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Fake apps: Behind the effective social strategy of fraudulent paid-archives

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Dec

2012

In my previous blog “Fake apps and the lure of alternative sources,” I discussed a fraudulent scheme that takes advantage of known, legitimate and free applications. Unlike rogues and ransomware which use threats and force to influence their victims, the social engineering techniques employed by a fake installer are less aggressive yet, interestingly, more deceptive. […]

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PDF malware adopts another obfuscation trick in attempt to avoid detection

05

Apr

2012

Security experts are playing a game of cat-and-mouse game with malware authors who are continually looking for ways to bypass detection by anti-malware products.As regular readers of Naked Security will know, one commonly-seen method of distributing malware is to embed an attack inside a malformed PDF. And, one way to hide code inside a malicious […]

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Super Mario brought to you by… Slice Factory?

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Jun

2011

There has been some recent online discussion about games from the Chrome Web Store requesting excessive permissions. These games are extensions for Google Chrome. To access various aspects of Chrome, certain permissions are required; for example, to allow access to the Bookmark manager to update bookmarks. The “Super Mario 2” app is offered by the […]

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