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# Palo Alto Networks News of the Week -- January 24

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Unit 42 [investigates](http://bit.ly/1CH0XyM) an antivirus app in the Google Play store, which our WildFire analysis cloud captured and identified as "Scareware," that displayed fake virus detection results to scare users into purchasing a premium service and was downloaded over a million times.

[Register for Ignite](http://bit.ly/1CD0Sw0) and save $400 when you add the CNSE exam by January 31.

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In an effort to continue to drive the performance testing conversation toward the use of application-centric metrics, Palo Alto Networks partnered with Ixia and David Newman of Network Test to develop the first ever public-facing performance test that uses applications commonly found on your network. [Learn more and see the results here](http://bit.ly/1uoKTTm).

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Researchers from Unit 42 attended ShmooCon 2015 this past weekend and participated in several great presentations. [Here they recap a few of their favorites](http://bit.ly/1GwGTp9).

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[Check out highlights](http://bit.ly/1wqvJHu) of recent Palo Alto Networks coverage in China.

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