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
Tag: scareware
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”.
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
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.