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Targeted Attack: London 2012 Olympics

28

May

2012

We’ve come across a malicious Olympic themed PDF earlier this morning while data mining our back end for documents which drop executables (those are never a good thing, unsurprisingly). The PDF exploits CVE-2010-2883, which affects older versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat. A typical PDF exploit will launch a clean decoy as part of its […]

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How to protect your Facebook account from Tag-Jacking scams

21

May

2012

Facebook had somewhat of a privacy overhaul in September 2011. One of the most welcome changes that users had been screaming for is the ability to approve tags before they are posted to their profile. The photo-tagging exploit has been abused by scammers on a grand scale! Follow these simple instructions to enable the feature […]

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AVG Web Threat Update: Week 20

21

May

2012

1. What’s lurking in those links on YouTube? YouTube visitors should be wary of the links that come with YouTube videos and should be especially wary of videos that turn out to be graphics directing them to links on the page. This one “only” had a survey scam on it. An earlier version, which was […]

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