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Russian SMS Ransomware Earned Fraudsters $30,000 in Five Weeks Security researchers found that a piece of ransomware which forces users to send an SMS to a premium rate number in order to unlock their computers, have earned $30,000 from an estimated 2,500 victims over the last five weeks.The ransomware model is considered to be the next step in the evolution of scareware, but wh... 14 January 2011 04:56 GMT Premium Rate SMS Trojan Poses as Installer for Popular Applications Security researchers from Microsoft warn of a new trojan, which poses as an installer for various popular applications and tricks users into sending SMS messages to premium rate numbers.The monetizing method used by this new piece of malware, which Microsoft detects as Trojan:MSIL/Fakeinstaller.A, is similar to that ... 21 September 2010 05:36 GMT People's Lives Held for Ransom via SMS The Australian Communications and Media Authority has issued warnings to the general public after it received reports of death threats being made via mobile phone text messages. The bogus SMSes inform people that they are about to be killed if they do not contact an e-mail address and follow instructions. Australian... 3 July 2009 05:38 GMT