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Legal raids in five countries seize botnet servers, sinkhole 800,000+ domains

December 1, 2016 feed

Enlarge / Avalanche once hosted ransomware that spoofed messages from law enforcement. Now, a team of 40 law enforcement agencies has shut it down. (credit: Symantec)
A botnet that has served

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Android Tapsnake Mobile Scareware: Ads Push Antivirus

December 20, 2013 Symantec

Recently, we have observed a series of mobile ads intended to scare users into believing that their device is infected with a threat called “Trojan: MobileOS/Tapsnake”.
 

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Sneaky fake company virus warnings trick users into installing malware

October 11, 2011 Sophos

An email from someone in your company tells you that there’s a virus problem which has resulted in data being stolen and some files being deleted. You are told to install an anti-virus tool t

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Strategies for monitoring fake anti-virus distribution networks

October 5, 2011 Sophos

At the Virus Bulletin 2011 conference in Barcelona, Spain, Sophos’s Onur Komili presented research into identifying distribution networks used to spread fake anti-virus software.

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