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Christmas themed scams on Facebook: How cyber crooks kick it up a notch during the holiday season

06

Dec

2012

From time to time the Websense® ThreatSeeker™ Network detects high volume surges of badness rolling across Facebook. In the past 48 hours we've seen a rapid increase of a particular scam campaign that has aggressively spread through the world's largest social networking site. With the holiday shopping season here, it appears that cyber crooks are going […]

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PayPal phishing scams – take care of yourself online this Christmas

05

Dec

2012

Australian PayPal users are being targeted in what is a now-typical pattern of phishing against the global payment service.The trick is short and simple: you receive an email “acknowledging” a smallish payment. It’s $79 to an eBay advertising service in our example:You know you didn’t spend that money yourself. Perhaps, at this time of the […]

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Mobile Crime Doesn’t Pay-in Japan

15

Nov

2012

Writing Android malware can be a lucrative business for a criminal. One can create an SMS-sending Trojan horse or a botnet client and sit back to collect the money. It can also be a very brief business, leading one directly to jail. The crooks behind Android/OneClickFraud (malware that extorts users) and Android/DougaLeaker (malware that steals […]

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