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“Check who is visiting your profile” scan on Russian social network Vkontakte

08

Mar

2012

Vkontakte is the Russian equivalent of Facebook and has been criticized for being a direct “clone”. Well, scammers are “cloning” the most popular Facebook scams and porting them to this Russian platform as well. One recurring scam, used to trick people into giving up credentials to their Facebook account, or executing a cross-site scripting attack […]

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Massive Compromise of WordPress-based Sites but ‘Everything will be Fine’

30

Jan

2012

A few days ago, hundreds of websites, based on WordPress 3.2.1, were compromised. The attacker uploaded an HTML page to the standard Uploads folder and that page redirects the user to the Phoenix Exploit Kit. Its logs show that users from at least four hundred compromised sites were redirected to Phoenix exploit pages. Here is […]

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Java Drive by download attack

13

Dec

2011

Recently I blogged about how attackers are forcing users to download fake codecs to spread malicious content. I’ve also encountered across another drive by download attack vector, which uses Java applets to execute downloaded malicious content on the victim’s machine. Download and execution of malicious content happens without user interaction. Let’s take look at a […]

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