| On average, Sophos identifies five new scareware websites every day, with the figure peaking at over 20 per day on occasion. |
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| This past weekend, even the New York Times was duped into running a scareware ad on their site. |
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| The people behind the adverts encourage Apple Macintosh users to download a piece of scareware called MacSweeper. |
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| Symantec also believes some people distributing the scareware could be earning more than a million dollars each year. |
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| Symantec said that scareware vendors go to great lengths to initimidate and trick web users in to purchasing this malicious software. |
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| Just about any newsworthy tragedy is likely to be used as a theme to promote scareware portals these days, one of the easiest mechanisms for cybercrooks to make money. |
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| Sophos picked up an average of fifteen such scareware sites per day during the first half of 2009, a three-fold increase over the same period last year. |
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| Some victims reported being targets of various scareware or ransomware cyber intrusions immediately preceding a BEC scam request. |
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| These pests include viruses as well worms, Trojan horses, spyware, scareware, ransomware, phishing and more, all colorfully named but seriously dangerous. |
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| The new entries include scareware, buttloads and cyberbullying. |
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| Others words include Twittersphere, Tweetup, Hacktivist, Clickjacking, Twitpic, Scareware and Dot-bomb. |
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