Showing posts with label Trojans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trojans. Show all posts

Thursday, July 25

Fake Warnings To Steal Your Money



Experts are warning about a computer virus that is appearing as an official government warning.  
The scam pops up as a message from Homeland Security and totally disables the computer.  The message warns that computer laws were broken and a $300 fine must be paid immediately.
The warning page is a scam designed to scare people.

Computer experts say infected computers need to have the virus removed professionally and to never pay the fine that is demanded.

They also advise computer owners keep up-to-date with antivirus software.


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Friday, June 7

Android Deadly Trojan


IT security firm Kaspersky claims it has discovered the "most sophisticated" Android trojan yet.
Identified by Kaspersky as "Backdoor.AndroidOS.Obad.a," the mobile menace can send SMS to premium-rate numbers, download other malware and install them on the infected device, as well as send malware to other devices via Bluetooth, and remotely perform commands in the console.

Obad is also extremely well concealed, by means of code obfuscation, and it uses several previously undocumented security holes in the Android operating system to make it very hard to analyze.
Once the trojan is executed on a device, it immediately tries to