In its most recent Q2-2011 quarterly report, Kaspersky Labs outlines that scareware, meaning fake anti-virus software that the company spotted worldwide had started to rise in number during Q2-2011 (April-June 2011). Also, computer operators whose systems thwarted the efforts for loading bogus software rose 300% within only 3 months. This surge in scareware attacks started during March 2011, while the numerical figure of the assaults keeps on increasing.
Moreover, different from 2009 when cyber miscreants attempted at contaminating PCs with scareware across all countries, the present day cyber-criminals concentrate on infecting end-users within Canada, USA and UK, names of developed countries, Kaspersky further outlines.
Also, it was in 2008 when the first scareware appeared as it attacked Mac OS X and then for an enormous length of period subsequently, there wasn't any new scareware to attack the systems. Nevertheless, during Q2-2011, anti-virus analysts spotted a number of products in close succession such as MacDefender, MacSecurity, MacProtector, and so on.
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