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Twitter Spam Promises Big Bucks

03

Oct

2012

There are two sets of spam accounts plying their trade on Twitter at the moment. Spambot Team A, assemble: Click to Enlarge Friends, aunts, brothers, dads and more are all apparently signed up to “Project Income” and doing well out of it too, thank you very much. The above spambots include one random Twitter user […]

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Police Ransomware: How to Get Your Malware Noticed

28

Sep

2012

Recently, I talked at the VB2012 conference in Dallas about one of the recent developments in today’s threat landscape: the increasing prevalence of police ransomware. Earlier, Trend Micro published a white paper discussing this threat, titled The “Police Trojan”.The idea behind ransomware is relatively simple: the cybercriminals block the user from accessing their own computer. […]

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Second Life Phish: Free Linden Dollars

25

Sep

2012

Second Life! I tried it once and ended up as some sort of six foot tall wolf creature in a dress. Or something. I can’t say I see too many scams related to it, but here’s one that qualifies – a website peppered with broken English is asking users of Second Life to enter their […]

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