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Evolution of the “Work from home” scam

09

Nov

2012

The “Work at home mum makes $X,000/month”scam has been around forever. In fact it has been an integral part of various scam campaigns which we’ve detailed in the past. These scams even appear in the list of the top-20,000 most visited websites in the world.It is interesting to follow the evolution of this scam. The scam site […]

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Rampaging Squirrel + Boyband = Twitter Spam

10

Oct

2012

Yesterday I saw a news article that did a frankly amazing job of rendering the plight of a boyband member being attacked by a squirrel, and mentioned it on Twitter. Within seconds, I was on the receiving end of some spam telling me I’d won a prize: Click to Enlarge Twitter users were spammed in […]

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NPAV – Net Protector AntiVirus truth exposed

30

Jan

2012

Since last 3 to 4 days we have come across lots of cases of reported infection of W32.Xpag virus and surprisingly found Net Protector Antivrus (NPAV) installed on the computers of all those cases. We were surprised to see the connection and was just thinking of what is the connection between this malware and that […]

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