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Malware campaign targeting Opera Mobile

15

Mar

2012

I’ve stumbled upon hundreds of links targeting Opera Mobile users, to trick them into installing a malware on the device. The links are in the form of: hxxp://geqe.net/opera_mini/1965/opera_mini.auto#phpsessid=85cfe7f19a08b6387d0441a9d949bb95 Each has a different phpsessid value. The domain was registered last month (02/12/2012) and does not seem to host any legitimate content. These pages redirect to another […]

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DNSChanger – Cleaning Up 4 Million Infected Hosts

02

Mar

2012

The internet is full of infected hosts. Let’s just make a conservative guesstimate that there are more than 40 million infected victim hosts and malware serving “hosts” connected to the internet at any one time, including both traditional computing devices, network devices and smartphones. That’s a lot of resources churning out cybercrime, viruses, worms, exploits, […]

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Smartphone App Used for One-Click Fraud in Japan

13

Jan

2012

During the summer of 2011, one-click fraud targeting smartphones was discovered. One-click fraud has now become so common that doing a quick search for certain keywords on the Internet using a smartphone leads to a high possibility of coming across one of the scam sites. The typical attack simply attempts to trick users into registering […]

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