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Not the Mobile Antivirus You Were Looking For

06

Jun

2013

While browsing Malaysiakini (a popular Malaysian website) on an Android phone, one of our analysts spotted this advertisement: Clicking on the ad led to an external site displaying the following: Looks reminiscent of the kind of text we’ve seen for years on webpages pushing rogues for Windows systems (and sometimes Mac). Clicking on the “Download […]

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Finnish Website Attack via Rogue Ad

05

Dec

2012

Finland has a rather small population in which F-Secure has a relatively large market share. (Natch.) And every so often, something “big” will occur in such a way that Finland becomes a kind of statistical laboratory. Here’s a graph of malware detections (as in preventions) that occurred in Finland from November 24th to November 27th. […]

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Perfecting the Fake – Android Edition

05

Sep

2012

When fake AVs used to take the limelight, their user interface started from pretty-crappy-and-obviously-rogue-AV and ended up with a very convincing design. It took a while for the miscreants to get there, but they really poured some work in an attempt to perfect the design in order to get a wider victim-base. It looks like […]

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