New trick from cybercriminals

Jack

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Due to the artistic nature of cybercriminals, they never run out of ideas. After using social media, popping up fake-av, hacking into websites… what’s more?
Panda Labs discovered a rogueware campaign using “useable apps” to distribute rogueware. When the victim runs the binary, this rogueware will run and pop up “Installing Flash FLV Player”:
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Right after Panda spotted that, they found another rogueware doing almost the same thing. This is more interesting and colorful.
Panda name it, the updated version:
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