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Failed Android Premium Rate SMS Trojan

Dec

2011

We’ve found Android trojans that attempt to send SMS messages to premium rate SMS numbers. That’s not unusual. What is different though is that these trojans don’t work. The trojans (detected as Trojan:Android/RuFailedSMS.A) use these permissions: And pretend to be installers for a range of applications, with each malicious app offering to download a package […]

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Facebook used to make scams look legitimate

Dec

2011

One of the recurring web spam themes I saw in 2011, was the “Work from home and make $X,000/month” scam. In some variations of the well-known and well-used scam, websites are set up to look like a well-established newspaper with a front-page (fake) article about making a lot of money from home. Here are a […]

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Anonymous shifts anti-Zetas operation to safer channels

Nov

2011

The Anonymous hacktivist organization’s Ibero-American wing has posted an update to its plans to unmask collaborators of the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas, going so far as to post a series of security steps to attempt to protect bloggers participating in the #OpsCartel anti-cartel operation. Anonymous Iberoamerica says it is creating a “special task force” […]

Category General Written by Naked Security - Sophos 0 Comments

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