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Hackers hit IMF with ‘sophisticated cyberattack’, reports claim

Jun

2011

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has suffered a major hack, according to media reports this weekend. The organisation, already making the headlines following the arrest and resignation of its boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn (whose alleged perpetration of a sexual assault has itself been used as springboard for malware attacks), attempts to oversee financial crises around the […]

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Facebook Attack Spreading both Windows AND Mac malware

Jun

2011

There’s a significant Facebook malware attack occurring at the moment.The attack is spreading virally using Facebook’s “Like” feature – a method well established by rogue Cost Per Action (CPA) marketing affiliates. But unlike CPA spam that redirects to deceptive ads, this “viral video” is linking to a Lithuanian server that serves up Windows and/or Mac […]

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Finding the Money Behind Rogue Pharmacies

Jun

2011

It is relatively easy for illegitimate websites to “poison” Google search results and achieve a top-5 ranking. And it’s financially well worth their while. Last Friday, at the French CLUSIR/RSSIA conference, Frederic Roumat from EdelWeb (groupe ON-X) gave us an impressively argued demonstration on the subject. After Roumat exposed the methods to gain illegal traffic […]

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