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Dissecting Fake Youtube Plugin which scams Facebook users

15

Jun

2012

Introduction We have been coming across many facebook scams. This sample which is taken from one of such scams has an interesting feature in it. It checks for the location of affected victim, and based on the country where the victim is located, additional scripts are injected. The victim is redirected to many other sites […]

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Danger in Open-source Downloads

14

Jun

2012

[This post from our internal blog has been sitting in the queue for a couple of months now. And then got bumped by the post on Flame, and had to wait until I got back from vacation… Thanks for being patient, Jim! — C.L.] Back in March, we were setting up for a round of […]

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Worm Spreads via Facebook Private Messages, Instant Messengers

17

May

2012

We recently received reports about private messages found on Facebook and distributing a link, which is a shortened URL pointing to an archive file “May09-Picture18.JPG_www.facebook.com.zip”. This archive contains a malicious file named “May09-Picture18.JPG_www.facebook.com” and uses the extension “.COM”. Once executed, this malware (detected as WORM_STECKCT.EVL) terminates services and processes related to antivirus (AV) software, effectively […]

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