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A Significant number of Attacks targeting users of Popular pieces of software and including the famous brand Angry Birds which you and us playing or played, Netcraft discovered this Russian Language Attack, it will really affect the trust of user in a Brand.

About Angry Birds  

Angry Birds is a video game franchise created by Rovio Entertainment. The franchise gained popularity on Apple’s iOS platform, and has since become available on all popular mobile and desktop operating systems. With over 1 billion downloads, and over 250 million active users, the franchise has become iconic in the marketplace — the original game and its variants are frequently seen in top ten app lists, so is continually attracting new users.

Distributing malware purporting to be genuine software isn’t a new tactic — Angry Birds has been a victim of this before. In this case smartphone users were hit by premium rate phone scams.

However, lately Netcraft has seen an increase in attackers taking additional measures to prevent their sites being found and taken down by the anti-phishing community. Restricting access to a site by country is one tactic that is becoming increasingly common. This is usually achieved via IP filtering; however Netcraft has seen attacks restricting access based on Accept-Language and User-Agent headers — one particular type of attack purported to provide a browser update, varying the brand impersonated depending on the User-Agent submitted.

What is the Malware tactic to affect you

As many attacks Netcraft have been primarly composed of Russian Language content and only restricted to the I.P Address located in Russian speaking countries, When Netcraft accesed that from a Proxy based in Russia, Malware was Distributed after that attempting to download the content through different proxy from other country it will redirect you to Google.



The Process above is called IP Filtering, which is being used by Attackers in the meantime.

You can also protect yourself with the Netcraft’s Anti-Phishing Extension which will help you in Future to detect these types of sites.

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