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If you have received a Skype message, asking something like 'Hey, is this your Skype profile pic?', you should ignore it and never click on a link, which is also included into the body of this message. According to our research center, it will lead you to a dangerous virus, Dorkbot worm, which is actively spread using this service at the moment. We have already seen other versions? of Dorkbot on Facebook and Twitter, so now it seems that it's Skype's turn. Typically, this campaign is based on a message, which looks like it was sent by one of your friends but in reality is used to infect computer with Dorkbot worm and include the machine into the botnet. Every PC user? can also be included into the distribution of this worm against his/hers will if computer is infected with this threat. As a result, all victim's Skype friends will keep receiving 'Hey, is this your Skype profile pic?' message. Here is how this? misleading message looks like: lol is this your new profile pic? http://goo.gl/[REDACTED]?img=[USERNAME] Clicking on the misleadingly named link downloads a ZIP file, which contains More...

According to E-Threat report by Bitdefender about Android malware, Android.Trojan.FakeDoc.A takes up 20% of all the malware in android devices. However, another form of this malicious Trojan, called Android.Trojan.FakeDoc.B takes less than 2%. Comparing with other malware forms in Android, this is the mostly spread malware program on Android devices at this time. The second place in this top goes to Android.Exploit.RATC.A, which has about 16% of infected Android devices, while his brother Android.Exploit.RATC.C has a bit more than 2%. The third and the fourth place goes to Exploits called Android.Exploit.GingerBreak.A and Android.Exploit.Exploid.B. GingerBreak has about 9% of compromised Android devices, while Exploid has about 7%. Android.Exploit.Asroot.A and Android.Exploit.Asroot.B are on 6th and 7th places. Together they take about 5% of all infected Android devices, and it is even more than Android.Hacktool.Faceniff.A, which is placed 5th. Another Trojan that Bitdefender chose to show is Android.Trojan.FakeInst.D. It takes the 9th place with 2% of population of? infected Android devices. More...