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Shop for free at Tesco? Beware – it’s another Facebook gift card scam

24

Oct

2011

In the last few days we have warned Facebook users about scams spreading on Facebook claiming that the likes of ASDA, Argos, Pizza Hut, Tim Hortons and Starbucks are offering consumers gift cards and vouchers entitling them to free goods. Now it’s the turn of British supermarket giant to find its brand abused by scammers […]

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Diginotar Hacked by Black.Spook and Iranian Hackers

30

Aug

2011

Diginotar is a Dutch Certificate Authority. They sell SSL certificates. Somehow, somebody managed to get a rogue SSL certificate from them on July 10th, 2011. This certificate was issued for domain name .google.com. What can you do with such a certificate? Well, you can impersonate Google — assuming you can first reroute Internet traffic for […]

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Xpaj Botnet Intercepts up to 87 Million Searches per Year

26

Aug

2011

W32.Xpaj.B is one of the most complex and sophisticated file infectors Symantec has encountered. In an older blog post, Piotr Krysiuk calls it an “upper crust file infector.” He describes several different approaches that the infector uses to increase the difficulty in detecting infected samples. The techniques W32.Xpaj.B uses to conceal itself within an executable […]

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