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• Zitmo Trojan masquerades as security app

  19.06.2012

  Zeus-in-the-mobile ("Zitmo") for Android users is back, pretending to be a security solution for the mobile operating platform.

• Beware of bogus Facebook hacking tools

  08.06.2012

  Users who are in the market for tools that are supposedly able to hack someone's Facebook account should be extremely careful when being faced with such an offer.

• Fake HD repair tool targets Windows users

  11.05.2012

  In the last year, ransomware infections have taken over from scareware as the cybercriminals' favorite mode of squeezing money out of their victims, but that doesn't mean that scareware has disappeared altogether.

• Fake mobile AV apps offered on Google Play

  10.05.2012

  Downloading apps from Google Play, the official online Android app market, is not without its dangers.

• Ransomware starts targeting US users

  10.05.2012

  A year or two ago, fake antivirus solutions were pushed almost daily onto users, but as time went by, they became wiser and more able to recognize them.

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