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Amy Winehouse’s Death Used in Online Attacks

25

Jul

2011

Cybercriminals quickly took advantage of news surrounding Amy Winehouse’s death by staging online attacks. Amy Winehouse is a multi-awarded English singer and songwriter who passed away over the weekend. This is actually standard behaviour of cybercriminals. One attack we’ve seen on Facebook is the usual Facebook survey scam that involves an age verification page and […]

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Unusual Twitter Spam of the Day

20

Jul

2011

I love the smell of some Twitter spam in the morning. iPads, iPods, books, movies, videogames, free holidays: I’ve seen – and blocked – them all. Then this happened. Yes, Twitter users are being sent, er, a free “arse”. Quite a lot of them, actually: Click to Enlarge “Why did you send me an arse?” […]

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Android threat trend shows that criminals are thinking outside the box

19

Jul

2011

A quick online search would reveal a number of articles declaring any one of the last few years as being the “year of mobile malware.” Conversely, these searches also reveal that claim that the same years are not going to be the year of mobile malware. These search results go back as far as the […]

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