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Mac Defender scam linked to Russian ChronoPay website

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Mac Defender scam linked to Russian ChronoPay website

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The Mac Defender malware currently plaguing Mac owners is linked to a Russian website, ChronoPay, a security researcher suggests. Brian Krebs notes that two domains infected users are directed to, appledefence.com and appleprodefence.com, are registered under [email protected]. The address is said to belong to ChronoPay's financial controller, Alexandra Volkova....

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Written in true scammers English, also!

That poor English grammar and spelling is precisely what to look for from software scammers.
 
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I like the term "scamware" used in this link from that article. Well coined.
 

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