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That NBC Sochi your mobile device will

2014-02-07 20:20:07.271018+01 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

That NBC Sochi "your mobile device will be hacked" was 100% bogus: http://blog.erratasec.com/2014...100-fraudulent.html#.UvUxPfFw1Og

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#Comment Re: made: 2014-02-07 22:06:07.325997+01 by: Dan Lyke [edit history]

http://www.trendmicro.com/clou...ers/wp-from-russia-with-love.pdf

We visited a Sochi-Olympic-themed site and were redirected to another, which prompted us to download an app (avito.apk) that seemed to have relevant travel information. After downloading the .APK file (MD5: 6d6cb42286c3c19f642a087c9a545943), we were prompted to install it. We clicked “Accept” because we believe that’s what typical users would do.

Maybe it is what typical users would do, but that they would is terrifying!

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