Twitter Being Used by Malware Developers: Symantec

Symantec security researchers are seeing cyber-criminals increasingly using Twitter as a way of luring mobile device users to their malware. In a March 12 post on Symantec’s blog, company employee Joji Hamada said that tweets are becoming a popular way for cyber-criminals to bring people to the Android.Opfake malware. “Users…

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Anti-Putin protesters targeted by data-wiping malware

Criminals with an apparent grudge against demonstrators opposing Russian President Vladimir Putin are targeting the country’s citizens with data-wiping malware, Symantec has reported. The attack uses the lure of one of a number of Russian-language protest subject lines, including, ‘Meeting for equal elections,’ and ‘all to demonstration,’ offering instructions in…

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