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China blames hackers for outage, but fingers point at govt

Jan

2014

Chinese government says a malicious attack caused the massive Web outage which affected up to 600 million online users, but observers point the finger at the national censorship system which likely malfunctioned.

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Spam attack hits Facebook’s own Help Center

Nov

2011

The community forum on Facebook’s Help Center has become overrun by spammers, making the self-help support community effectively useless. The spam messages, which at the time of writing are claiming to offer ways to watch live streaming video of American football games, appear to have been posted by bogus or compromised Facebook accounts. Clicking on […]

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Malicious Gaddafi Death Spam Continues

Nov

2011

Contributor: Anand Muralidharan Recently, the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi triggered a malware attack which Symantec previously blogged about. We have observed spammers' continued delight with this news event through the sending of malicious attack and 419 spam messages. In the spam targeting residents of Brazil, a video showing Gadhafi asking for mercy and […]

Category General Written by Symantec Security Response Blog 0 Comments

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