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What threats will Web users face in 2012?

10

Jan

2012

The AVG threat research lab expects no radically new web threats in 2012, but rather refinements of existing scams and malicious techniques. We expect business-as-usual for the dark side, although there seems to be some small successes in fighting the bot nets that distribute vast amounts of spam (including that containing malcode.) In 2011, Microsoft […]

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Another Cousin of Spitmo: SymbOS/ConBot

18

Nov

2011

Analysts on our Threat Research team recently discovered OpFake, a premium rate SMS trojan that shares code with Spitmo. And this week, our automation flagged a new sample. The guys have completed their analysis and it appears that we’ve discovered yet another “cousin” of Spitmo. Only, this trojan doesn’t pretend to be an Opera update. […]

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Congratulations!!! You won ?2m pounds: SMS 419 Scams

04

Jul

2011

Topi Kanniainen, from Digitoday contacted us regarding an SMS advance fee fraud (419) scam message that he received. It turns out that a member of our Threat Research team has also received such a message, back in January — he saved it. Here’s what it looks like: Here’s ukmobilelotto.com: Google Apps? The (cloud friendly) scammers […]

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