ESET Threat Blog

At ESET, we spend a great deal of time researching the latest technologies and how they may be affected by frauds and scams.  Sometimes these are "old fashioned" spam through email, or they may be programs like fake antivirus programs or ransomware. And we certainly have blogged extensively about PC support scams where the caller … Read More…

John Hering of Lookout has reported that a number of apps for smartphones running Windows Mobile that look like legitimate games also have autodialling functionality. According to Elinor Mills' article at http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20006882-245.html, they call up premium rate phone services in Somalia and elsewhere (Italy and the South Pole have been mentioned), and include apps like:

3D Anti-Terrorist game
PDA … Read More…