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80% of “Olympic” domains are scams and spam

04

Aug

2012

Today we looked at all identified domains containing the string “olympics“, which had been accessed by our customers over the course of a day. It turns out that 80% of them are scams or spam and they can be classified into three main categories. Typo squatting Spammers can take advantage of users making mistakes when typing […]

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Facebook used to make scams look legitimate

22

Dec

2011

One of the recurring web spam themes I saw in 2011, was the “Work from home and make $X,000/month” scam. In some variations of the well-known and well-used scam, websites are set up to look like a well-established newspaper with a front-page (fake) article about making a lot of money from home. Here are a […]

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Thai PM is Twitter hacked

03

Oct

2011

Thailand’s Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, had her Twitter account hacked this weekend – meaning that her followers saw a stream of messages criticising her leadership. Ms Yingluck, who is Thailand’s first female prime minister, has been criticised for having no previous political experience, with some observers claiming that she is a puppet for her brother […]

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