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Valentine’s Day Scams: For the love of money

08

Feb

2012

Scam artists and cybercriminals are looking to turn romance into profit now that Valentine's Day approaches, possibly taking over your computer in the process. According to ESET researchers in Latin America, we can expect the quest for love to be leveraged as an effective social engineering ploy to enable the bad guys to infect unsuspecting […]

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Fake news of Hugo Chavez’s death leads to malware

13

Dec

2011

Internet users in Latin America were the intended victims of a malware campaign last week, when an email was spammed out claiming to contain breaking news of the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. The email claimed that government officials had confirmed the death of 57-year-old Chavez, after a struggle against cancer. The news of […]

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VB2011 talks, Part 1

12

Oct

2011

Missed those talks at VB2011? A few notes on a first set of talks I attended. A look at the cybercrime ecosystem and the way it works, Dmitry Bestuzhev On the underground market, it is possible to find plenty of things such as clones of real ID documents (shipping with your own picture) and even […]

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