Rogue Software Category

The latest rage in criminal malware in Russia and parts of Asia is the SMS blocker, also known as just a blocker, according to Kaspersky Threatpost reporting on their Security Analyst Summit in Cyprus.
SMS Blockers are a variant on ransomware, a form of malware that demands payment in order to disinfect a system or decrypt [...]

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Fake antivirus software is becoming more prevalent on the Internet, with its creators using clever methods to fool users into installing the programs, according to a new report from Google.
Google conducted a 13-month study looking at some 240 million Web pages. The company determined that 11,000 of those domains were involved in distributing fake antivirus [...]

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