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Gift card mania: Fake Starbucks gift cards spreading on Facebook can lead to malware – More and more scamsters misuse popular brands to lure users to visit their websites

23

Feb

2012

The fake campaign is spreading via Facebook walls around the globe. The texts used in the announcements are English, which increases the chance that a large number of Facebook users accept the “bait message”. Starbucks has been used in a similar campaign already last year and they warned their customers not to believe such a […]

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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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entrepreneur.com compromised with CrimePack

25

Jan

2012

Today, WebsenseR ThreatSeekerR Network alerted us that entrepreneur.com has been compromised by cyber criminals, resulting in potentially malicious content being downloaded to a user’s machine. Entrepreneur.com is a very popular information and community resource for small businesses on the web (see Alexa rank).Websense customers are protected from these threats by ACET, our Advanced Classification Engine.Update: We have contacted […]

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