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Fake Facebook Security Team phishes passwords from users

03

Jul

2011

A number of Facebook users have reported to us receiving mysterious messages, seemingly from Facebook’s security team, telling them that their accounts have been suspended. The spam messages, however, are not legitimate. In reality they have been sent out by fraudsters posing as Facebook’s real security team, with the intention of phishing credentials from unsuspecting […]

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XSS Attack on Sina MicroBlog

29

Jun

2011

If you have not heard of Sina Weibo in China, you are behind the times. Sina Weibo is the most popular microblog service in China, with more than 100 million registered customers. Just yesterday (28 June), Sina Weibo was attacked through an XSS exploit: more than 30,000 high profile customers were affected and sent out messages containing a malicious link. Sina provided a quick […]

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Plankton malware drifts into Android Market

14

Jun

2011

The rate at which we discover new malware samples for the Android platform is increasing. At the beginning of the year we got a few samples every month and today it is not uncommon to get a few every week. While most of the newly discovered samples are released outside of the official Android Market, […]

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