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Beware of deceptive in-app advertising

10

Apr

2012

I really like the new app by OMGPOP called Draw Something. I play this game with my friends possibly a little too much. Draw Something has attracted more than 50 million downloads, and was just acquired by Zynga for $200 million dollars. It was surprising the other day when I noticed an advertisement at the […]

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Anatomy of an on-going Malvertising Campaign

29

Mar

2012

During the course of investigating an open incident ticket with a customer, we uncovered what is a common occurrence on the web – legitimate sites linking in third-party content (often advertisements or banners) that ultimately drives the victim browser to an exploit kit.Here is the chain of events that we observed: User browsed to: www.thenewsvault.com […]

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Gift card mania: Fake Starbucks gift cards spreading on Facebook can lead to malware – More and more scamsters misuse popular brands to lure users to visit their websites

23

Feb

2012

The fake campaign is spreading via Facebook walls around the globe. The texts used in the announcements are English, which increases the chance that a large number of Facebook users accept the “bait message”. Starbucks has been used in a similar campaign already last year and they warned their customers not to believe such a […]

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