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Facebook likejacking scam via Twitter

18

Jun

2013

The tweet your receive is ”we are looking for twitter members to try our brand new product at twitgiveaway,com”, mostly as a reply to one of your tweets. There is no mistake in the URL: “twitgiveaway,com”. There is indeed a comma there instead of a dot. The reason for this is that the fraudsters are […]

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AutoRun. Reloaded

13

Jun

2013

Recent months have produced little of interest among worms written in Java and script languages such as JavaScript and VBScript. The main reason behind this was the limited proficiency of the virus writers, whose creations were anything but remarkable. However, a couple of malware samples grabbed our attention; their complexity is testimony to the fact […]

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Increase in Pump and Dump Stock Spam

15

May

2013

In the last few weeks we have observed a drastic increase in “penny stock” spam emails. In 2011 Symantec published a blog entitled Global Debt Crises News Drives Pump-and-Dump Stock Scams, which also dealt with this type of spam.Penny stocks, also known as cent stocks, are shares in small companies that trade at low prices, […]

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