Mobile malware exaggerated by “charlatan” vendors, says Google engineer

Security vendors are behaving like “charlatans and scammers” by peddling antivirus apps to protect consumers from smartphone malware, Google’s open source champion Chris DiBona has said in an uncompromising attack on the industry. In recent weeks, antivirus vendors including Kaspersky Lab, McAfee and even infrastructure companies Juniper Networks and IBM,…

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Malware makers migrate to ‘ce.ms’ domains after Google purge

After being thwarted by Google earlier this year, cybercriminals have shifted from “co.cc” to “ce.ms” as their preferred domains for hosting their malware. Security firm ZScaler noticed several “ce.ms” domains were hosting malicious code, along with JavaScript code obfuscated to evade antivirus software. “Attackers keep registering different random domains to…

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