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KakaoTalk Targeted By Fake and Trojanized Apps

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Jul

2013

Instant messaging apps are battling it out and trying to become the next popular means of communication that people will use. For example, in Japan, both Line and KakaoTalk – two popular chat apps – both claim to have more than 100 million users in Japan.It shouldn’t be a surprise that cybercriminals are using the […]

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Pikspam: An SMS Spam Botnet

20

Dec

2012

The recent discovery of an Android SMS spam botnet by Cloudmark, which is detected by Symantec as Android.Pikspam, has gained media attention. While delivering spam by botnets is nothing new, mobile technology has opened up new attack vectors to cybercriminals who are using the proven attack techniques of social engineering and spam with success on […]

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Double Trouble

31

Oct

2012

Android is one of the fastest growing platforms in the world. In the second quarter of this year there were more than 300 million active Android devices. The increase is almost 900,000 of new devices per day and still rising. These days Android occupies more than 60% of the mobile devices market! By the way […]

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