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Flashback Wrap Up

Sep

2012

Six months ago, Flashback was attracting a lot of attention from researchers and media due to its wide spread and interesting features. Since then, we have witnessed its operator abandoning control of the botnet by shutting down its latest command and control server. This happened in May this year. The number of infected systems has […]

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Facebook/Twitter hacks by “friends” on the rise for teens and young adults

Oct

2011

A new survey of American teenagers and young adults has discovered that three out of every 10 have had their Facebook, Twitter or MySpace accounts broken into for the purposes of snooping or impersonation. And most know who was responsible. The poll, conducted by Associated Press-MTV, asked a total of 1355 people between the ages […]

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Want to be friends on Facebook? Don’t click the link!

Aug

2011

Hot on the heels of last week’s malicious attachment spam, we are now observing another large malicious spam campaign – this time without attachments. Like the majority of last week’s campaigns, this spam is being sent out from the Cutwail botnet. The message arrives as a fake Facebook friend invite notification. The message looks convincing, […]

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