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One-Click Billing Fraud Scheme Through Android App Found

Jan

2012

In the past we’ve reported about one-click billing fraud schemes starting to target smartphone users. The scheme, as its name suggests, tricks a victim into registering and paying for a certain service after being falsely led to a specific website. The past attack we saw involved a website wherein target victims were asked to pay […]

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Malicious script blocks browsers on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

Oct

2011

Doctor Web’s engineers received a number of requests from iPad users who were troubled by blocking pop-up windows displayed as they visited certain sites in Safari and other browsers. Investigation into the problem revealed that pop-ups were brought up by malicious JavaScript code embedded into web-pages by criminals. Earlier Doctor Web issued a report about […]

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Spammers Leverage Amy Winehouse’s Death to Send Virus

Jul

2011

The five-time Grammy award winner Amy Winehouse was found dead in London on July 23rd. Symantec has already observed spammers who are trying to capitalize on related news headlines by sending out malicious threats less than a day after the news was released. The two samples given below are examples that we have observed. These […]

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One-Click Billing Fraud Scheme Through Android App Found

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