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Your Google+ Invite May be Spam

06

Jul

2011

We have recently observed a run of spam that is trying to capitalize on the new social networking platform provided by Google, named Google+. The spam samples are similar to other social network spam messages, which are discussed in one of our previous blogs. Currently, Google is trialing their new venture with limited users; therefore, […]

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Cybercriminals switch from MBR to NTFS

06

Jul

2011

Modification of the hard drive areas responsible for the initial loading of the system has become increasing popular with cybercriminals. Moreover, cybercriminals have now moved on from just modifying the MBR (master boot record) to infecting the code of the NTFS loader. We recently discovered an interesting piece of malware — Cidox. It is peculiar […]

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Tricky New Facebook Spam Technique

01

Jul

2011

We’ve (re)discovered an interesting new run of Facebook CPA survey spam. It uses this subject line: This girl killed herself after her dad posted a secret of her on her fb wall. The spammer used this template two weeks ago and it then linked to a webpage hosted at thedominio.info. Today, the spam links to […]

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