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June virus activity review: number of threats for Android increased tenfold since January

04
Jul
2011

The first summer month in 2011 turned out to be rich in new threats to information security. Doctor Web virus analysts found more than 40 malicious programs for the operating system Android (and only one for iOS), which indicates a steady increase in the platform’s popularity among virus writers. Compared with the beginning of 2011, […]

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FBI announces international cyberbusts: scareware peddlers and malvertisers taken out

23
Jun
2011

Twenty years ago, people used to ask, “Why do virus writers do it?” That was a tricky question to answer, since there was often little motivation beyond notoriety – being recognised in the counterculture as a virus writer. These days, you can explain virus writing Jeopardy-style instead. (Jeopardy is a back-to-front US game show in […]

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