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Phishing Scam Spreads via Facebook PM

23

Jan

2013

We’ve seen a number of cases wherein phishers have used compromised Twitter accounts to send direct messages (DMs) to their followers. We’re now beginning to see this same tactic used in Facebook in the form of private messages (PMs), and this isn’t just some spam mail in your inbox claiming you have received a “private message”.As of […]

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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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Instagram Spam Leads to Premium Mobile Services

14

Nov

2012

Spammers have long been leveraging social networking sites to pull off scams. Generally speaking, as the popularity of a service increases, so too do the illicit activities of scammers. It seems that the popular photo-sharing service Instagram is the latest social networking site to catch the attention of these scammers.I discovered this first-hand when I […]

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