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Fake anti-virus cloaks itself to appear to be Microsoft Update

09

Jun

2011

We are seeing the criminals behind fake anti-virus continuing to customize their social engineering attacks to be more believable to users and presumably more successful. Last week I wrote about fake Firefox malware warnings leading users to rogue security software. This week they’ve started to imitate Microsoft Update. The page is nearly an exact replica […]

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World funniest condom commercial? Facebook hit by viral likejacking attack

31

May

2011

Messages are beginning to spread across Facebook, tricking users into clicking on links which claim to point to the world’s funniest condom commercial. The messages are spreading through a clickjacking scam (sometimes known as likejacking) which means that users do not realise that they are invisibly pressing that they “Like” the video when they try […]

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Fake Firefox warnings lead to scareware

31

May

2011

Purveyors of fake security software don’t let much grass grow under their feet and continually make improvements to their social engineering lures. While most of the talk for the past month has been their move to Mac with fake Finder pop-ups that appear to scan your computer, they haven’t stopped innovating on Windows either. Their […]

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