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LinkedIn spam leads to pump-and-dump stock scam

19

Jun

2012

We used to see a lot of pump-and-dump stock spam. Pump-and-dump stock manipulation works like this: Spammers purchase stock in companies trading at very low levels, at a cheap price The spammers artificially inflate the stock’s price by encouraging others to purchase more (often by spamming “good news” about the company to others). They then […]

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Fake jobs: hire-position.com and work-position.net

25

Sep

2011

Two new fake job domains with a twist, possibly the same scammers who are behind this long-running spam/scam campaign. hire-position.com work-position.net Domains were registered just yesterday via a Russian registrar to an address in Spain which is most likely fake: Ivan Gonsalez Email: [email protected] Organization: Ivan Gonsalez Address: P. de Extremadura […]

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Trojanized Flash Player haunts Vkontakte users

12

May

2011

A Russian site is urging users to upgrade their security software:xtot.ruIn English:The file is hosted on that same site at xtot.ru/install_flash_player.exeUpon installing this ‘Flash Player update’ the following installation screens appear:Although it looks like the real thing, it is not. Hackers took the original file and added their own malicious code to it.This is not that obvious though […]

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