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‘Police Ransomware’ Preys on Guilty Consciences

12

Sep

2012

“Police ransomware” is big business, generating millions of euros for organized criminal groups. In May, at Europol’s headquarters in The Hague, police officers from 14 EU member states affected by this threat met with representatives from Europol, Eurojust, Interpol, and industry. Police ransomware, as explained on the Europol website, typically appears as a pop-up window, […]

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Correct Version Aversion

22

Jul

2011

Here’s a site located at buburuzka(dot)com/xhupt/71093(dot)php offering up some fake Flash. Humorously, they don’t seem to have taken much notice of the latest Flash Player version – compare and contrast: Click to Enlarge As you can see, a bit of a difference there. Of course, they’re hoping the victims they attract to a scam like this […]

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Update Center targets Chrome and Firefox with fake flash updates

11

Jul

2011

Browser specific scams have mostly been seen in the realm of rogue AV attacks, but here’s one (located at update-center(dot)myftp(dot)org) that checks out your browsing credentials then sends you to one of the below locations for a fake flash update: IE8: Redirected to usa(dot)gov. No fake flash for IE users. It’s a different story for […]

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