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Phishers are lovin’ McDonald’s

13

Sep

2011

Today we came across a new, very sophisticated type of phishing. The user receives a message that, at first glance, appears to be from McDonald’s. It states that the recipient has won the chance to participate in a survey and immediately receive remuneration of $80 for doing so. There is nothing to suggest that something […]

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1 lost message on Facebook? Spammers pull a fast one with bogus notification

31

Aug

2011

Facebook claims to have more than 750 million active users, and many of them would have steam coming out of their ears if they thought they had lost a message from one of their Facebook friends. And that’s exactly what spammers are banking on in their latest campaign, where they have sent out messages pretending […]

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Spammers Take Advantage of Unicode Normalization to Hide URLs

04

Aug

2011

by Francisco Pardo and Nick Johnston Spammers are never idle when it comes to finding new ways to bypass mail filters—after all, this is crucial to a spammer's success. Recently, we've seen a low but steady number of spam messages in which spammers are replacing certain characters in URLs (which point to spam sites) with […]

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