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A study of malicious attacks on Facebook

03

Nov

2011

VB2011 was held from October the 3rd till the 7th in Barcelona, Spain. We were privileged to be part of the conference where we presented “A study of malicious attacks on Facebook” (abstract here). Being fully committed to the security industry, we felt compelled to do this research that summarizes attacks on a social network […]

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Get gamed and rue the day…

26

Oct

2011

As we discussed last week, socially engineered threats are specially crafted threats designed to lure the eye and trick the mind – they look legitimate or benign, and in worst case, may take advantage of a trusted relationship, by utilizing a compromised account or familiar website. Social engineering techniques may be used in isolation, but […]

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Analysis of compromised web sites – hacked PHP scripts

20

Oct

2011

Things have been pretty busy lately as far as web attacks ago. Over the past few weeks we have seen several large spikes of threat detections, corresponding to various waves of mass defacement attacks against legitimate web sites. Pages on the hacked sites are typically injected with iframes (or scripts that add iframes), which explains […]

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