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Illegal TV Cards Allowing Free Olympic Viewing Sold Online

27

Jul

2012

We found a spam mail written in Japanese leveraging the Olympics to sell illegal products. We fully expected this event to be used by cybercriminals to profit. It appears that among the first to strike are sellers of B-CAS cards for TVs, which are supposed to allow the users to watch the Olympics without paying.These […]

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Bogus London Olympics 2012 Ticket Site Spotted

26

Jul

2012

The much-anticipated 2012 London Olympics is set to kick off this Friday. As the event draws nearer, we expect to see online attacks riding on different Olympics-related activities. Sure enough, we saw this interesting Facebook wall post regarding the said event: The site, hosted on the domain liveolympictickets(dot)com, appears to offer tickets for sale. Moreover, […]

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“Social” malware ready for the Olympic Games 2012

20

Jul

2012

The Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games is exactly 1 week away and Websense Security Labs researchers are already seeing data-stealing malware that aims to capitalize on the Games. Malware piggybacks on the buzz surrounding current, high profile events like the Olympics in order to steal personal data. Olympics-themed content armed with malware is introduced mainly through social engineering-based […]

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