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News of Beastie Boy Adam Yauch’s Death Leads to Malware

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May

2012

The demise of Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch (also known by his moniker MCA) have resonated among hip hop fans these past days. Sadly, we have seen a particular attack that targets specific recipients and used this news item as a social engineering lure. We have found an email sample that leverages Yauch’s death to entice […]

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What threats will Web users face in 2012?

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Jan

2012

The AVG threat research lab expects no radically new web threats in 2012, but rather refinements of existing scams and malicious techniques. We expect business-as-usual for the dark side, although there seems to be some small successes in fighting the bot nets that distribute vast amounts of spam (including that containing malcode.) In 2011, Microsoft […]

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Rapper Soulja Boy blames Facebook hackers for racist, homophobic rant

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Jun

2011

There are plenty of people in the public eye who have claimed over the years that their social networking accounts have been compromised by hackers: Lil Wayne, Britney Spears, Kim Kardashian, Lil’ Kim, Britney Spears (again) and most recently – of course – Anthony Weiner. Some of these people may even have been telling the […]

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