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An avalanche in Skype

04

Apr

2013

There is a new malicious ongoing campaign on Skype. It?s active and kicking yet. The infection vector is via social engineering abusing infected Skype by sending massive messages to the contacts like these ones: i don’t think i will ever sleep again after seeing this photo http://www.goo.gl/XXXXX?image=IMG0540250-JPG tell me what you think of this picture […]

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A never-ending Facebook story – Resourceful attackers enlarge their ad networks and earn more and more money with it

06

Jun

2012

It all starts with a post on someone’s Facebook wall: The shortened URL leads to a long URL and its only function is to check the visitor’s country of origin. According to the result, the visitor is put into a quite impressive redirection chain with numerous ad services, built-in via iFrames. Each and every “visit” […]

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Google Plus Fuss

05

Jul

2011

While the status of Google+ invites keep switching from “live to dead to back to gone again”, it’s worth noting that you’ll see some weird and wonderful things while hunting for invites. You’ll also see this: Click to Enlarge “Free Google+ invites instantly”? Opening the short URL presents you with – oh, I’ll let you […]

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