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Online pharmacy spam disguised as LinkedIn message

12

Jan

2012

We have posted many times about online pharmacy spam disguised as phishing emails for various entities like Amazon, Paypal, eBay, AOL, Facebook and Twitter. Since the end of December 2011, we have started to see large amounts of emails being sent in the name of the well known professional social network LinkedIn. They appear as […]

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MyPermissions offers one-stop shop to clean up social media permissions

05

Jan

2012

A new site, MyPermissions.org, makes it easy to herd a posse of wild cats – aka the hoard of applications and sites to which we’ve granted permission to access our information on Twitter, Facebook and more. MyPermissions doesn’t ask for your personal information or login details, thank goodness. Otherwise, it would be a phishing goldmine. […]

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Spam campaign uses Blackhole exploit kit to install SpyEye

15

Dec

2011

This article was written in collaboration with my colleague Jean-Ian Boutin. The Wigon botnet (also known as Cutwail) is being used in a massive spam campaign. A multitude of ruses are used to get the user to click on a link: fake LinkedIn or Facebook notifications, free Windows licenses, fake deliveries etc. The links are […]

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