Posts Tagged ‘monetization’

AlbaBotnet, another new crime wave in Latin American cyberspace

Mar

2013

After the recent emergence of the criminal PiceBOT in Latin America, AlbaBotnet has joined the growing ranks of regional IT crime. It revolves around online pharming, with a view to delivering targeted phishing attacks which steal information from the online accounts of two major Chilean banks. According to the data we have processed, this campaign […]

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Key Figure in Police Ransomware Activity Nabbed

Feb

2013

Ransomware is a nasty scam that infiltrates your computer and tricks you into thinking that you’ve done something wrong. Police ransomware in particular informs users that they need to pay their local police a fine.We have written detailed reports about these attacks in the past, including multiple blog posts as part of our investigations into […]

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Tumblr Blog Ads a Nice Little Earner? Not Exactly.

May

2012

The “Tumblr Dating Game” template has morphed into a new form of Tumblr spam called “Tumblr Tasks”. Spamlinks sent to users via their Ask Boxes look like this:“Anonymous asked: have you made $$$ with tumblrtasks(.)com yet?? my bff just raked in 3k last month its crazy”Visiting the link takes you to an advert landing page linked […]

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