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New Facebook “Your account has been blocked!” scam

03

Nov

2011

Another Facebook spam pretending that Your account has been blocked is currently circulating on Internet. The subject is: Facebook Service# Your account has been blocked! Order/8236. The email comes with an attachment called New_Password_FB_1148.zip. The zip file contains the New_Password.exe , which tries to fool the victim by posing as a Microsoft Word Document. You […]

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Creative Chinese spam hides inside resized HTML textarea tags

01

Nov

2011

You’ll have to take our word for it – the text below comes from Chinese spam. The text asks recipients to view the attached Excel sheet and forward it on to any relevant staff. Of course this sort of text is bound to trigger content-based spam filters, so creative spammers are using an HTML trick […]

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Blackhole Exploit Targeting Steve’s Death

08

Oct

2011

Contributor: Anand Muralidharan The sad news making the rounds these days is the death of Steve Jobs, Apple Co-founder and former CEO. His death has been a terrible loss to both Apple and Apple fans everywhere. Spammers are capitalizing on this incident by sending malicious links related to the news of Steve Jobs’ death. Below […]

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