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Technical paper – Fake anti-virus: The journey from Trojan to a persistent threat

16

May

2012

Fake anti-virus (also known as scareware) has grown over the years into a persistent and prevalent threat and is now one of the largest families of malware that we’ve seen in recent history. In this new technical paper from SophosLabs, threat researcher Jagadeesh Chandraiah studies the evolution of fake anti-virus over the last three and […]

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Fake anti-virus disguises used by Android malware

16

May

2012

The Android malware threat is growing.As financially-motivated cybercriminals realise there’s a real opportunity to make money, so we are seeing more attacks created and distributed which target Android devices.And it’s no surprise to see similar social engineering tricks that have worked on other operating systems in the past also being used on the Android platform.Like […]

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Fraudsters spam out scams via SMS text messages

08

May

2012

Have you received an SMS message, seemingly from Apple, on your mobile phone telling you that you have won a prize in a contest?SophosLabs researcher Onur Komili told Naked Security that he was browsing his Facebook newsfeed this weekend, when he saw a friend – let’s call him Freddie – post a screenshot of the […]

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