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Android malware surges in 2011

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Nov

2011

On 15th november 2011, Google’s mobile operating system Android reached 52.5% of the global smartphone market share. And with it an almost sixfold increase in malware threats. Gartner's share of worldwide 2011 Q2 smartphones sold to end-users by operating system. Fortinet numbers show an increase of 83% for malware creation in 2011 […]

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Phone Text Message Lottery Scam!

23

Nov

2011

It is seen that Advance-Fee Fraud i.e. confidence trick to earn money is used by scammers sending phone text (SMS) messages as a means of gaining new victims. These (SMS) messages claim that the recipient has won a substantial sum of money in an online lottery as shown below. The texts claim that the “lucky” […]

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Trojan:SymbOS/OpFake.A

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Oct

2011

Here’s the technical analysis related to yesterday’s post on Trojan:SymbOS/OpFake.A. OpFake.A arrives as a supposed Opera Mini updater using file names such as OperaUpdater.sisx and Update6.1.sisx. The malware installer adds an Opera icon to the application menu. When run, it will show a menu and a fake download progress bar. Progress bar displayed… even though […]

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