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Android Ransomware Predictions Hold True

Sep

2013

Back in June we discovered a malicious Android application that was holding user’s Android phones for ransom. This discovery confirmed earlier predictions that ransomware would evolve and arise on new platforms, such as mobile devices.As part of our pre-emptive SMS spam domain identification, we have detected a recently-registered domain that is currently serving a new […]

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Fraudulent Facebook 2013 Demo

Dec

2012

Fake applications offered by phishing sites continue to appear. In December 2012, a fake app was seen that was titled, “Facebook 2013 demo”. Social networking users in India were most likely targeted in this phishing attack because the phishing URL consisted of certain words in Hindi. The phishing site was hosted on a free Web-hosting […]

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Ransomware: How to Earn $33,000 Daily

Nov

2012

Ransomware is a type of malicious software that disables the functionality of a computer in some way and demands a ransom in order to restore the computer to its original state. Recent variants use law enforcement imagery to add legitimacy to the warning messages. The malware uses geo-location services to determine the location of the […]

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