Posts Tagged ‘fake news’

Sandy Storms Inboxes

Oct

2012

Hurricane Sandy, one of the most devastating Superstorms in decades, hit the US East coast. Causing the loss of lives and businesses and leaving countless people without electricity, Sandy has now added spam to its list of misery. We are observing spam messages related to the hurricane flowing into Symantec Probe Networks. The top word […]

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“Stop Scrolling and Get Paid” Spam Delights Tumblr Users

Sep

2012

Well, maybe not “delights”. It’s time for your regularly scheduled bout of Tumblr spam. This is what’s currently doing the rounds at the moment: “Stop scrolling and get paid”, a work from home system being promoted by lots of unwanted Tumblr posts and a fake news website. Click to Enlarge So I convinced my mom […]

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Fake BBC Website Serves Exploits and Work From Home Offers

May

2012

In September, our friends at Sophos wrote about a fake BBC website offering up the “chance” to work from home for predictably large sums of money. No more than a day later, we were covering fake BBC video posts targeting Facebook users. Today we’re looking at a fake BBC URL which drops the end-user onto […]

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