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Spam Leads to Exploits and Fake AV on Twitter

17

Apr

2012

There’s been a couple of rather nasty spam runs taking place on Twitter over the last few days. Heres an example of a rogue URL being spread at the weekend: Click to Enlarge The link in question – fuuut(dot)tk, was being sent by both compromised accounts and spambots. Anybody visiting the link would find themselves […]

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Tumblr? Tublr.

13

Apr

2012

Back in November, we highlighted a Tumblr typo site leading to iPad offers. That URL was Tumbr(dot)com – a similar situation seems to be playing out in Tumblr land so this time we’re looking at Tublr(dot)com. Should users mistakenly type “Tublr” instead of “Tumblr” in their image URL clickthrough links, the user clicking that image […]

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Pinterest VISA Giftcard Spamrun on Twitter

02

Apr

2012

Avid users of Pinterest should be aware that a large spamrun involving the Twitter account “Pinterestdep” is underway right now, asking users to visit the Twitter page and associated URL. Here’s one spam example in case the Twitter staff nuke the bot posts from orbit: Click to Enlarge The account in question has a solitary […]

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