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Android.Oneclickfraud Gang Arrested, but Sister Apps Alive and Active

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Jun

2012

As reported by various Japanese news agencies, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department recently arrested six men in connection with fraud for using a malicious Android app to scam victims into paying for adult-related video content. Details of the operation can be found in the blog I wrote in back in January. According to the local […]

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AVG Threatwatch Week: 16

24

Apr

2012

Android malware poses as Angry Birds Space game What’s the story? The latest version of the immensely popular “Angry Birds” series has already seen fake imitations in the Android Marketplace. The infected version of the fake “Angry Birds Space” contains a Trojan which security company Sophos has detected as Andr/KongFu-L. While the imitation appears to […]

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Rogue Instagram and Angry Birds Space for Android Spotted

18

Apr

2012

Recently, Facebook announced its acquisition of Instagram– a popular photo-sharing smartphone app, which also released an Android version almost a week ago. It was reported that Facebook paid approximately $1 billion (?629m) in cash and stock for the said takeover.Cybercriminals, soon enough, started to take advantage of Instagram‘s popularity. We discovered a spoofed webpage containing […]

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