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Changes Afoot for Changeup

23

Aug

2013

We have been fighting the W32.Changeup family of worms for a long time and have written about it many times Figure 1. W32.Changeup prevalence One characteristic of W32.Changeup is that it is written in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and the viral part of its program code is seen in the program file, but […]

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Compromised Accounts Tweeting Links to Malware

09

Aug

2013

It is not uncommon to see social media accounts, specifically Twitter accounts, directing users to malicious sites such as the ones hosting Android.Opfake, an issue we blogged about last year. Recently, we discovered that the accounts of innocent users were being compromised to tweet these types of malicious links to their followers. Figure 1. […]

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Malware Hijacks Social Media Accounts Via Browser Add-ons

31

Jul

2013

We spotted yet another threat lurking around social media sites targeting users of either Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. This threat uses fake extensions for both browsers to infiltrate user systems and hijack social media accounts – specifically, Facebook, Google+, and Twitter accounts.To install these fake extensions, users would see various lures on social media […]

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