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Instaspam 2: Electric Boogaloo

29

Nov

2012

While death and taxes may be certainties in our lives, in the digital world-especially in social networking-one certainty is spam.I recently wrote about gift card spam targeting the popular photo-sharing application Instagram. The service now has over 100 million users and it recently surpassed Twitter with more average daily visitors (Figure 1). As the number […]

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Malware Targeting Windows 8 Uses Google Docs

17

Nov

2012

Initially, I thought that Backdoor.Makadocs was a simple and typical back door Trojan horse. It receives and executes commands from a command-and-control (C&C) server and it gathers information from the compromised computer including the host name and the operating system type. Interestingly, the malware author has also considered the possibility that the compromised computer could […]

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Don’t fall for Folstart

13

Nov

2012

We use thumb drives in different ways – usually to transfer files from one computer to another. When we create folders in thumb drives, we have a certain level of confidence that the folder isn’t malicious or doesn’t contain malware. Unfortunately, this assumption is not always true. For the month of November, we added the Folstart […]

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