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Mobile devices becoming more susceptible to viruses and malware

Posted By Matt Williams|08-06-2012

Think your smartphone is free of viruses and malware? You might want to think again. Layered security options should be used on mobile devices much like they are on PCs and laptops to help defend against all sorts of internet nastiness. Infosecurity Magazine said so-called "man in the browser" software has become "man in the mobile" and is affecting things like online bank...

World’s largest spam email network taken down

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Posted By Scott Cornell|08-04-2012

The Grum botnet was, at its peak, responsible for 35 percent to 50 percent of all spam emails, according to CNNMoney. However, coordinated efforts took down its main servers in the Netherlands, Panama and Russia. Not only has the Grum botnet been effectively shut down, but the international effort aimed at Grum has also caused Lethic, another large botnet, to stop spend...

The internet was a scary place in early 2012

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Posted By Kate Beckham|08-02-2012

A Kindsight report released July 19 detailed the top threats and trends related to malware and viruses from April to June. All told, about 14 percent of all home networks had malware or another similar threat during the second quarter. That percentage is an increase of more than seven percent from the first three months of the year. One of the top attacks in April wa...

A third of malware missed by virtual analysis

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Posted By Scott Cornell|07-25-2012

"Overall, there are so many ways malware can uncover it is inside a virtual environment that it is practically impossible to completely obscure from malware that it's running inside a virtualized environment," said Gunter Ollmann, vice president of research at malware analysis company Damballa, according to the news source. "The tools that are being developed by the bad gu...

Android malware tricks users into thinking it is Skype

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Posted By Matt Williams|07-23-2012

"The cybercriminals behind this scheme have set up fake websites advertising fake Skype apps. Most of the sites are hosted on Russian domains (.ru) but the fake apps themselves are hosted on Nigerien domains (.ne)," according to the news source. "The reason this is not a good fake is that instead of an .apk file (the expected package file for Android apps), users are serve...