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The New Black: Facebook Black Scam Spreads on Facebook

Mar

2013

Yesterday, Facebook users may have noticed an influx of their friends posting about something called Facebook Black. Figure 1. Facebook photo plugging “Faecbook” Black (notice the typo in this image) Similar to previous scams, users are tagged in a picture that contains a link to an external website. In this case, the link is found within the […]

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An analysis of Dorkbot’s infection vectors (part 2)

Nov

2012

In part 1 of this series, we talked about Dorkbot and its spreading mechanisms that required user interaction. In this post, we’ll talk about how Dorkbot spreads automatically, via drive-by downloads and Autorun files. Spreading vectors not requiring user interaction: Drive-by downloads and Autorun files Dorkbot can also spread automatically, without user interaction. We recently […]

Category General Written by Microsoft Malware Protection Center 0 Comments

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