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W32.Phopifas Cons Over 2.5 Million Clicks with LOL Links

11

Oct

2012

An ongoing social engineering attack on Skype and other instant messaging applications has been gathering momentum over the last week. The attack, which looks to have started around September 29, has to date conned over 2.5 million clicks from unsuspecting users. The attack uses the common social engineering tactic of posting a link to instant […]

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Twitter hauls spammers into court

08

Apr

2012

Twitter has taken its fight against on-line spam to the courthouse.The instant messaging powerhouse filed documents last Thursday in the US District Court in San Francisco. This brings civil action against a raft of defendants who, says Twitter:* Distribute software tools [which are] designed to faciliate abuse of the Twitter platform and [are] marketed to […]

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[Malware Alert] Beware of Rogue Forms Asking for Credit Card Info

04

Apr

2012

Trusteer researchers released the details of a sophisticated new malware attack targeting Facebook users. The goal of the Ice IX malware scheme is to steal credit card information and personal account information. This is accomplished by using a web injection cycle to display a malicious web page in the victim’s browser.The form tries to obtain […]

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